• Qualification Testing of Aerospace Hydraulic Components as per Military Standards.

The Hydraulics and pneumatics lab provides testing services in the field of Hydraulics and pneumatics. We undertake specialized activities such as:

• Design and development of LRUs for aerospace applications with focus on pumps, actuators and filters.
• Design & Development of Test Facilities for Qualification Testing of Aerospace Hydraulic Components as per Military Standards
• Qualification Testing of Aerospace Hydraulic Components as per Military Standards
• Consultancy in the field of Fluid Power

Aerospace test rigs and calibration group is under the purview of C- ASMP with the specific objective of catering to Aerospace design, development and testing requirements. Aerospace Test rigs group targets to augment the Aerospace development arena in India with design and developmental activities of both products and test rigs

Our Core Competencies are

1. Design and Development of airworthy products (Actuators, filters and pumps)
2. Design & Development of Test Facilities / Test rigs for Qualification Testing of Aerospace Hydraulic Components as per Military Standards.
3. Assembly / Qualification Testing of airworthy products as per Military Standards
4. Consultancy in the field of Fluid Power

With multi-skilled manpower with experience in multi-domain activities and 30-year experience Aerospace test rig group has catered to a versatile clientele of Aerospace domain.

Facilities include

CAD

1. Solidworks 2020 (With simulation premium)
2. AutoCAD 
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3. Unigraphics UGNX 7.5

FEA

1. ANSYS 18.2 (With CFD and HFSS)

DESIGN SOFTWARES

1. KISSSOFT and KISSSys2014

MATHEMATICAL MODELLING SOFTWARES

1. MATLAB

Endurance Test Rig (Pump testing facility)

Specifications:

Rotation speed : 16000 rpm
Operating pressure : 260 bar
Oil temperature layering : up to 125°C
Power : up to 26kW

Applications:

Test Pump is run under varying operating conditions (Speed, Load, inlet oil temperature) for over 3000 hrs to check its performance.

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma(Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188322

Pressure impulse test rig

Specifications:

Impulse pressure : 420bar (peak)
Max oil temperature : 135 deg C
Frequency : 1Hz ( for lower pressures and smaller volume requirements, higher frequencies upto 2hz can be tried)
Pressure Increase rate : as per standard (1,00,000psi/sec to 2,00,000psi/sec)
Standard followed : SAE-ARP-1383-2013

Applications:

Pressure Impulse test setup to determine the ability of the hydraulic component to withstand the repeated pressure pulses within the specified limits. This is an accelerated fatigue test.

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line:  +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma (Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-2218832

Performance Test Rig (Pump testing facility)

Specifications:

Rotation speed : 16000 rpm
Operating pressure : 260 bar
Oil temperature layering : up to 125°C

Test chamber temperatures
Pump chamber: : Ambient to -60 ˚C
Oil temperature layering :-60˚C to +115 ˚C

Applications:

• low-temperature soak testing of pump
• low-temperature performance testing of pump
• Thermal shock testing of pump

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma(Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188325

Performance Test Rig (Pump testing facility)

Specifications:

Rotation speed : 16000 rpm
Operating pressure : 260 bar
Oil temperature layering : up to 125°C
Power : up to 26k

Applications:

• Break-in run test
• Load cycle test
• Response time test
• Calibration test
• Heat rejection test
• Pressure control and stability test

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line:  +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma (Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188325

The low-temperature performance test rig

Specifications:

Temperature: Ambient temperature to -50 deg C
Workspace dimension : 1750 x 1000 x 800 mm(max)

Applications:

• low-temperature soak testing
• low-temperature performance testing
• Low-temperature pressure cycling tests
• Thermal shock testing

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma(Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188325

The high-temperature performance test rig

Specifications:

Temperature : ambient to 200 deg C
Workspace dimension : 1500 x 700 x 800 mm(max)

Applications:

• High-temperature soak testing
• High-temperature performance testing
• High-temperature pressure cycling tests
• Thermal shock testing

Contact Details:

Mr. Deepak Singh D (Scientist-B)
Email: deepak[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188215

Mr. S K Verma(Scientist-F & CH – (C-ASMP) & GH (ES))
Email: vermask[at]cmti[dot]res[dot]in
Land Line: +91-80-22188325

PUBLICATIONS

1. Tom Thampy, Madhan Kumar. N, D.R Ragavendra, M Maanasan, Karthik Kumar “Design and Development of Electro Hydraulic Force Exciter” FPSI Technical Seminar (FPTS 2016) at Satish Dhawan Auditorium IISC Campus (17th to 18th June. 2016)
2. S.Arumugasamy, S.K Verma, &  Tom Thampy “Design & Development of Thermal Relief Valve for a Hydraulic Actuator’ FPSI Technical Seminar “Product Design & Manufacturing” at BIEC, Bangalore (10th to 13th Dec. 2008)
3. Tom Thampy, Manju M, Prakask VS published a Technical paper on “Pressure Impulse Test at Extreme Temperatures”, FPSI Fluid power magazine
4. Tom Thampy, Dattatreya, Sudha L, SachinNaik, Deepak Singh D Investigations on “Pressure Impulse Testing of Hyd. Elements For Air-Worthiness”. FPSI Technical Seminar (FPTS 2018) “Latest trends in Fluid power technology”, 19th & 20th June 2018 at Prof. MRD Auditorium, PES University, Bangalore
5. B. Dattatreya, Anil Kumar K, R. Murali Krishna, V. A. P. Sarma, S. K. Verma, S. Arumugasamy, N. Balashanmugam,  (2017), Development of Sphere lapping attachment or CNC Lathe, Manufacturing Technology Today (MTT), Vol.16 (Issue 12):page no 3-6.
6. Srivastava E, Anil Kumar K, Design and analysis of Vibration test fixture for 6.2 KW Siemens motor, IJIRSET, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020
7. Dr. Kavithaa S, Salvin George shaji, and Vijet Bhandiward “Electron beam welding of oxide dispersion strengthened 9 Cr martensitic steel-an experimental and theoretical perspective”, 2nd International Conference on Materials Manufacturing and Modelling, ICMMM – 2019, VIT University, Vellore, 29th - 31st March 2019 [Materials Today: Proceedings, DOI:10.1016/j.matpr.2020.03.379].

Achievements /recognition

1. SKOCH Order-of-Merit among Top-30 transformational innovative projects in India and also with the SKOCH Gold Award in Dec 2017 for the innovation in the project “Battery Operated Hydraulic Rig for charging the Parking Brake Accumulator.
2. Tom Thampy awarded "IEI Young Engineers Award 2019-20" in Aerospace Engineering Division.
3. Tom Thampy, Vinod AR, Sunil magdum received “Innovation award” during MEDIC 2018, for successfully developing and presenting a novel medical device proof of concept as part of team project at Medical device innovation camp (MEDIC-2018) held during 28^th Sept. to 2^nd Oct 2018 at IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
4. Best project award for "Process development of Diffusion Aluminization" during CMTI Foundation Day 2018

Technology development

• Development of Electro hydraulic pneumatic separator for Qualification testing of Pneumatic MEMS pressure sensors for its airworthiness
• Development of Battery Operated Hydraulic Rig for charging of Parking Brake Accumulator of LCA Tejas Aircraft
• Development of test setup for Pressure Impulse Testing of Aircraft hydraulic elements with hydraulic fluid at its elevated temperature +135ºC and -40ºC.
• Development of Electro hydraulic force exciter for modal analysis of machine tool structure.
• Development of Endurance test rig for LES actuator with Electro hydraulic Heating and control of hydraulic oil temperature to continuous supply of hydraulic fluid at 135 ± 2 ºC
• The test setup for pressure cycling of QDC with air as a media for pressure up to 0-15 bar at a frequency 0.5 hz
• Design and development of test setup for various testing as part of its qualification. Test setups were made and tested the indigenously developed hydraulic elements of LCA, Tejas aircraft for its 3000 flying hrs. Different hydraulic elements like actuators, servo valve, hydraulic system filters, up locks, Ti tubes, NRV, QDC, hydraulic release valve, FDCV, Heat exchanger etc tested for its qualification as part of indigenization. 
• Development of Universal test rig to test industrial pumps, valves, and hydraulic cylinders in a single test bench.
• Facility for Diffusion aluminization process on Alloy steel specimen
• Development of sphere lapping attachment for mill turn center to achieve spherecity of less than 5μm.