Testing and Infrastructure Support (TIS)

Introduction

The Testing and Infrastructure Support Section (TIS) provides a wide range of technical and manufacturing support to Test and Evaluation projects, as well as maintaining the facility infrastructure. Support capabilities include:

  • Chemical Analysis
  • Instrumentation
  • Metrology
  • Digital Photography and High Speed Video
  • Drafting and Animation
  • Mechanical Assembly and Manufacturing

Chemical Analysis

The NETE Chemistry Laboratory conducts evaluations, chemical analyses and physical tests on materials and equipment including:

  • Fuel and lubricant testing, including testing for Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM) programs;
  • Exhaust emissions measurements for diesels, gas turbines and other stationary sources;
  • Testing of effluents for compliance with environmental regulations;
  • Evaluation of Health and Safety test methods and equipment;
  • Evaluation and testing of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) air filtration equipment; and
  • Evaluation of software tools for analysis of laboratory data.

Instrumentation

The Instrumentation group designs, installs, and operates control and data acquisition instrumentation for the test and evaluation of shipboard structures, machinery and systems. Typical applications involve recording strain, torque, vibration, shock, noise, speed, load, as well as environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure and humidity.

A wide range of transducers, signal conditioners and data acquisition systems are available at NETE, including:

  • Transducer and Recorder calibrators;
  • Portable, rugged and self-contained digital recorders;
  • Multichannel digital chart recorders;
  • LabView® based acquisition and control instrumentation;
  • Electrical Power Analyzers;
  • Accelerometers, Microphones and Hydrophones;
  • Thermocouples and RTDs;
  • Pressure & Flow Sensors; and
  • GPS, LVDTs and Load cell sensors.

Metrology

The Metrology services include non-destructive testing; dimensional inspections; alignments; in-situ inspection of high pressure air cylinders, and bearing failure analysis.

NETE Metrology equipment and services include:

  • Video microscopic inspection with digital output;
  • Boroscopic inspection;
  • Bearing analysis;
  • Hardness and surface roughness measurements;
  • Eddy current and magnetic particle inspections; and
  • Ultrasonic inspection and thickness measurements.

Photography

Photography services are available to record events using still high resolution digital photography and digital video recording (regular and high speed) including:

  • CCTV portable system with secure storage capabilities;
  • NTSC and HDTV Video Cameras;
  • 3D Virtual Reality Tour design (e.g. Victoria Class VR);
  • Infrared Camera -40 to +2000°C for thermography surveys;
  • High Speed Video cameras 512x512 at 2,000 FPS;
  • High Speed Video cameras 1024x1024 at 5,400 FPS (up to 150,000 FPS with reduced sizes);
  • Long Range HDTV Camera (600mm lens);
  • Video Motion Analysis – Xcitex 3D ProAnalyst;
  • Video Strain Analysis – Correlated SolutionsVIC-3D; and
  • Photo/Video Software Editing.

Drafting and Animation

Drafting and animation capabilities include two and three dimensional drawings, solid modeling, and animation of engineering designs. NETE has complete scanning, editing and high quality colour printing facilities.

Mechanical Assembly and Manufacturing

NETE has in-house facilities to support fabrication, assembly and service requirements. Shop services include machining, welding, carpentry, electrical installation, and mechanical assembly. Resources include:

  • Cooling water to 454 m3/h, 8.8 MW at 24C;
  • Superheated and saturated steam;
  • Low and high pressure air;
  • Petroleum fuel storage and supply;
  • Boring mills, lathe, milling machines;
  • MIG, TIG, and oxy-acetylene welding; and
  • Overhead rolling bridge crane with 13363 kg capacity and forklift with 1818 kg capacity.