Transport of Complex Aircraft Structures

The transport of fragile or complex structural and mechanical components is subject to vibrations caused by rolling, pitching, or securing, which can result in damage.

In addition to developing protection solutions for transit, SOCITEC organizes and ensures compliance verification of the installation and takes vibration measurements throughout the journey.

SOCITEC offers a range of shock and vibration recorders, associated calculations and advice, as well as monitoring of the measurements during transport by our team of engineers.

Large aircraft structures are both heavy and delicate: their size means they cannot be over-packaged, yet their thin-walled, high-precision construction makes them sensitive to vibration and to the bending loads of transport.

Damage often comes from resonance, a structure that matches a frequency present on a particular road or sea segment can suffer fatigue cracking that is invisible on arrival.

This is why protection is not only about isolation hardware but also about measuring, modeling and monitoring the actual transport conditions, so integrity can be proven rather than assumed.