Advanced analysis laboratory for
the aerospace industry

In a sector where reliability and durability demands are increasingly stringent, NOVITOM offers advanced tomography-based inspection and materials characterization solutions with unparalleled precision.

Our team of expert engineers supports you throughout the entire product lifecycle: from the development of high-value-added materials—advanced composites, lightweight alloys, powder metallurgy—to the systematic inspection of components, delivering rigorous multi-scale analyses tailored to your specific requirements.

Un avion sur une chaine d'assembalge: les composants ont été contrôlés de manière non-destructive avant montage, les matériaux mis au point d'après une caractérisation poussé de leur microstructure, des analyses de santé matière, des essais in situ.

A reliable and accurate evaluation of the quality and your alloys

  • Microstructure & Integrity: Porosity, non-metallic inclusions, microcracks, texture, intermetallics and precipitates, heterogeneities
     
  • Surface Properties: Roughness, oxidation, localized corrosion, adhesion, integrity and thickness of surface treatments, resistance to aggressive environments
     
  • Interfaces and Assemblies: Quality and integrity of welds, rivets, bolts, residual stresses, behavior at interfaces
     
  • Advanced Quality Control: 3D X-ray tomography (micro-CT), high-resolution imaging (optical, electron), automation and artificial intelligence for defect detection and classification, dimensional control
     
  • Aging and Degradation: Initiation, propagation of fatigue cracks, creep and relaxation at high temperature (superalloys), stress corrosion cracking…

Optimize the performance and reliability of advanced composite materials

> Material health: porosity, impregnation defects, phase ratios, fiber orientation, thickness, and ply stacking

> Surface properties: adhesion, roughness, wettability, surface chemistry, durability

> Fiber/matrix interfaces: residual stresses, microcracking, adhesion

> Multi-material compatibility: composite/metal interfaces, bonding, riveting, differential stresses

> Advanced quality control: 3D tomography and high-resolution imaging, automation and AI for defect detection/analysis, dimensional control

> Aging and degradation: UV, humidity, hydrolysis, load and temperature cycling

Integrate 3D control by micro-CT into your digital tread

The simulation of manufacturing processes, shaping or behavior in service requires reliable, multi-scale data representative of material reality.

For more than 15 years, we have been using micro-tomography (micro-CT) to capture the microstructure and internal health status of your materials and components, including under stress, and provide the most realistic input and validation data.

Our expertise for your developpemnt and innovation projects

  • Instrumented mechanical and thermal testing (micro-CT, acoustic emission, etc.)

  • Real-time 3D monitoring of cracks, delamination, and other defects

  • Experimental modeling of manufacturing and forming processes

  • Integration of mechanical stress systems directly into your CT scanners

  • Automatic defect detection using our pre-trained neural networks

  • Setting up and supporting collaborative R&D projects

  • Specialized training in micro-CT and 3D/4D analysis

They trust us

Browse examples of non-destructive measurements
and characterisations

Crystalline structural analysis with high-throughput X-ray powder diffraction

Crystalline structural analysis with high-throughput X-ray powder diffraction

We are enthusiastic to announce the first industrial use…

Comparison of the scanned full volume of a part with its CAD model

Comparison of the scanned full volume of a part with its CAD model

High-resolution, high-energy X-ray tomography provides non-destructive access to the…

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

Microtomography enables the non-destructive detection and 3D visualization of…

Comparison of the scanned full volume of a part with its CAD model

Comparison of the scanned full volume of a part with its CAD model

High-resolution, high-energy X-ray tomography provides non-destructive access to the…

Our services and expertise in measurements and analyses for aeronautics

Analyses de porosités

Contrôles dimensionnels et comparaison CAO

Carcatérisations 3D de fissures

Caractérisation des composites

Analyses 3D de fibres

Accompagnement R&D

Formation à la tomographie

NOVITOM: your partner for control, advanced characterization and innovation in aeronautics

Recognised expertise

More than 20 years of experience in the advanced characterization of critical materials for aeronautics.

Tailor-made analyses

Solutions adapted to your materials and constraints, detailed reports and 3D visuals to facilitate decision-making.

Technological innovation

Combine the power of synchrotron and AI technologies to push the limits of 3D characterization and control.