Spin testing solutions

Precision right from the start thanks to meaningful centrifuge analyses. Schenck's centrifuge solutions examine rotating components in a centrifugal field and are essential for development, manufacturing, and quality assurance in industries such as e-mobility, aerospace, engines, turbines, fans, and automotive components.

The spin tester is designed for testing rotating components in a centrifugal field. It is indispensable for the development, production, and quality assurance of e-mobility rotors, engines, turbines, turbo compressors, turbochargers, fans, couplings, and abrasive bodies. The Centrio combines innovative technologies with experience, offering low noise emissions, low energy consumption, space-saving design, and easy operation.

Areas of application include material and component testing, including material strengthening, strength testing at high speeds, burst testing, and LCF and HCF testing for analyzing material fatigue and reliability.

Dynamic Spin Rigs are specialized test systems designed to simulate real-world operating conditions for rotating parts such as turbine disks, rotors, compressor wheels, and assembled bladed disks.

By subjecting components to high rotational forces, thermal cycling, and dynamic excitation, these test rigs allow for comprehensive evaluation of material performance, structural integrity, and vibration characteristics—long before components are introduced into field operation.

With a proven history of performance and reliability, our spin rigs are essential for development, validation, and research of the next generation of turbines, rotors, and structural components.

We offer a comprehensive range of spin testing equipment designed to meet the needs of both research and production environments. Their burst rigs provide turnkey solutions for proof (burst) testing as well as over-speed (pre-spin) testing, with numerous customization options available to tailor the machines to specific requirements. Unique to Test Devices, their Dynamic Spin Rigs are capable of exciting resonant vibrations in fully bladed engine rotor stages. These rigs come equipped with integrated excitation, speed control, and data acquisition systems, enabling detailed vibratory characterization, damper evaluation, and high cycle fatigue testing programs.

Test Devices also provides high-performance fatigue rigs with rapid cycling drive systems that significantly reduce the duration of test programs, allowing for faster data acquisition. An optional crack detection system is available to monitor rotors during low cycle fatigue testing and halt the process before fatigue failure occurs. Additionally, Test Devices offers reliable direct drive systems ideal for vertical spin rigs and other test rig configurations, engineered to deliver outstanding performance and dependability. To support customers with existing spin test equipment, the company supplies upgrades and replacement parts, maintaining critical spare parts in inventory to ensure minimal lead times when they are needed most.