EMPIR 18SIB08 ComTraForce - Final Publishable Report: VTT-R-00032-25

Internationally competitive high-tech products use highly efficient materials including carbon fibre, high strength steels and high strength concrete. Thus, European industry needs an improved scientific infrastructure, which covers a large range of different construction types, to measure their performance for safety and ecological use. Prior to the start of this project, calibration for material testing was done statically and did not only disregard time and frequency influences but also lacked traceability. This project developed methods and transfer standards for static, continuous, and dynamic force calibration traceable to the SI in the range of 1 N to 1 MN. In accordance with the requirements of industry 4.0, force measuring devices were also developed and described by extended theoretical models resulting in digital replicas. This software can be potentially implemented in calibration procedures and extended for use in manufacturing machines. Further to this, the outputs from the project were made available to force metrology services, such as accredited calibration laboratories, for use with their force transducers and testing machines in both quality control and science.