Environmental Simulation Testing

Unique testing capabilities to ensure hardiness and performance of your products to extreme dynamic, climatic, and environmental phenomena.

Helping you deliver high-performing, quality assured, and rugged products to any market.

We evaluate your products and systems to extreme environmental conditions in our Environmental Simulation Laboratory helping you bring your product from development to end use faster and more cost-effectively. Testing simulates the normal and extreme environmental exposure that your product may face to verify the performance and safety in any environmental condition.

Our streamlined testing process brings your product from development to end use efficiently in accordance with government, regulatory, military, and manufacturer standards. With our automated testing through computer-controlled systems, we’re able to maximize accuracy and repeatability in demanding environmental effects.

Testing programs can include both rapid physical stresses and ongoing climatic conditions that can impact a product’s lifespan. Components and systems are exposed to various types of damage and stress, such as corrosive, explosive, fungal, seismic, shock, water immersion, temperature, and ozone exposure. We can perform Environmental stress, Physical stress, Extreme climatic conditions, and Chemical exposure testing simultaneously.

Environmental Simulation Testing Capabilities:

Global demand for tough, reliable, and quality-assured equipment is greater than ever. Today, manufacturers face a wide set of stringent compliance challenges for demonstrating environmental hardiness.

• Shock & Vibration Testing
• Package Testing
• Drop Testing
• HALT/HASS Testing
• Flame Testing
• Fungus Testing
• Enclosure Testing
• Ozone Resistance Testing
• Green Energy Testing
• Benchmark, Competitive and Failure Analysis
• Ingress Protection Testing
• Cable Testing

Expertise and world-class facilities to meet your development schedule & compliance needs for market acceptance.

Our Environmental Simulation Labs, on both coasts, employ numerous environmental chambers, including several large walk-in chambers. Hydraulic and electro-dynamic shakers are used for a wide range of vibration testing, from ISTA packaging to seismic compliance testing. Our hydraulic vibration systems are capable of full level (Zone 4) seismic simulation.

Other Testing Capabilities:

• Military Testing
• Battery Testing
• HALT/HASS Testing
• Package Testing
• Body Armor Testing
• Cable Testing
• RTCA/DO Aeronautics Testing
• Comparative and Performance Testing & Failure Evaluation

What is an Environmental Simulation?

An environmental simulation is the replication of climatic or dynamic conditions that occur in various situations to evaluate the ability of a product, device, or piece of equipment to resist the applied environmental stressors. Replicating expected environmental stressors is important to prove rugged performance, durability, and life expectancy of equipment to ensure that the components or systems will not fail during the expected environmental conditions in which the equipment will be used. Examples of common environmental simulations include:

• Impact Resistance
• Drop Testing
• Shock and Vibration
• Temperature Cycling
• Flame Testing
• Ozone Resistance
• Fungal Resistance
• Altitude
• Ingress Protection

Why should I perform Environmental Simulations?

Environmental Simulations help verify the ruggedness and durability of products and equipment. For products that will be commonly exposed to any of the above stressors, it is important to ensure that they are able to survive and function throughout the exposure without a permanent degradation of performance. Environmental simulations are used to prove product characteristics like water-proof, rugged, semi-rugged, and resistance to fire/flammability.

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