Advanced analysis and testing laboratory for the
automotive, railway, and shipbuilding industries

In a rapidly changing environment— electrification, weight reduction, enhanced safety, transition to innovative materials — the transportation industry must meet increasingly stringent requirements in terms of reliability, durability, and performance optimization. To support these developments, Novitom offers control and characterisation solutions designed to enhance performance, providing a precise and rigorous insight into your materials and components throughout the product development cycle.

NOVITOM supports you with comprehensive non-destructive testing and material characterisation solutions based on cutting-edge technologies such as 3D X-ray tomography (micro-CT), high-resolution imaging, multi-scale material characterisation, and artificial intelligence-assisted analysis.

Analytics driving innovation and reliability

Whether you are developing lightweight alloys, hybrid composites, fastening systems, battery structures, or safety components, we can help you understand, optimise, and validate your material choices and manufacturing processes.

An automotive component (engine part, structural element, battery connector, injection-molded part) can be fully inspected and scanned before assembly, its materials validated following a complete analysis of their microstructure, and its strength predicted using reliable data and simulations supported by experimentation. These observations can be made at different scales, locally, on a part of borderline quality, or even under mechanical or environmental stress.

A comprehensive, reliable, and accurate assessment of the quality and microstructure of your components

  • Microstructure & integrity: Porosity, non-metallic inclusions, microcracks, texture, intermetallics and precipitates, heterogeneities, crystalline texture, fatigue microcracks
  • Surface properties: Roughness, oxidation, localized corrosion, adhesion, integrity and thickness of surface treatments, resistance in aggressive environments (salt, humidity, thermal variation)
  • Interfaces and assemblies: quality and integrity of welds, rivets, bolts, adhesives, stampings: quality, adhesion defects, residual stresses, mechanical behavior at interfaces
  • Advanced quality control: 3D inspection by synchrotron X-ray tomography (micro-CT), high-resolution optical and electronic imaging, automatic defect detection and classification using artificial intelligence, 3D dimensional control
  • Aging, damage, and degradation: initiation and propagation of cracks, thermal and vibration fatigue, delamination, corrosion and stress corrosion, load cycles

Optimise the performance of advanced composite materials

  • Material health: porosity, impregnation defects, phase ratios, fiber orientation, thickness and layer 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 cycles

Integrate 3D micro-CT inspection into your digital workflow

Simulating manufacturing, forming, or in-service behaviour processes requires reliable, multi-scale data that accurately represents the material’s actual properties.

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

Our expertise for your R&D and innovation projects

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

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

  • Experimental modeling of manufacturing and forming processes

  • Integration of mechanical stress systems directly into your tomography devices

  • Automatic defect detection using our pre-trained neural networks

  • Setup and support for collaborative R&D projects

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

Browse examples of non-destructive measurements and characterisation

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

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

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

3D localisation and visualisation of cracks

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

NOVITOM: your partner for control, advanced characterization and innovation

Recognized expertise

Our services and expertise in measurement and analysis for the transport industry

Customised analyses

Solutions tailored to your materials or devices and your constraints, detailed reports and 3D visuals to facilitate decision-making

Technological

Combining the power of synchrotron technologies and AI to push the boundaries of 3D characterisation and control