Climatic Testing

We have more than 20 chambers that have the ability to simulate most climatic conditions. These chambers cover the extremes of temperature, altitude, humidity, temperature cycling, solar heating and corrosive atmospheres. All chambers are continuously monitored by our central SCADA computer-controlled data collection system.

Key features:

• Temperature, altitude and humidity facilities
• Thermal vibration facilities
• Thermal vacuum chamber for space simulation testing
• Management of various types of test programmes - e.g. Reliability Growth Programmes (RGP), Reliability Development testing (RDT), Environmental Stress Screen (ESS), Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)
• Flexible service 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
  

We provide assistance with interpretation of specifications and design of appropriate test programmes. We can also design and build special-to-type test facilities to undertake some of the more unusual or more intense types of testing.
 

 
Environmental Engineering - Climatic Test
 

Temperature:	Minimum: -100°C  - Maximum 500°C (constant and cycling)
Humidity:	10% to 98%
Altitude:	to 100,000ft (Rapid and Slow rates of change)
Pressure:	1.7bar (-15,000ft)
Water:	Drip, Spray and immersion
Salt Fog:	Steady state and cyclic tests
Direct injection Ln2 Temperature Chambers:	4 (Ramp rate up to 30°C per minute)
Indirect injection Ln2 Temperature Chambers:	4 (Up to 4m³)
Mechanical Temperature Chambers:	7
Humidity Chambers:	1
Temperature-altitude-humidity Chambers:	2
Salt Fog Chamber:	1
Thermal Vacuum Chamber:	1
Pressure/Vacuum Chamber:	1
Other Tests	Frost, Icing, Water, Immersion, Solar Radiation, Fluid Contamination

 
Multiple channel data logging of many types of signal is also available.