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Thermal Vacuum Testing Lab in Southern California at Environment Associates
When you want to test your product for extreme space conditions, that include temperatures from 155°C to -175°C at space vacuum altitudes, Environment Associates is your solution. Using this test to determine the unique failures of space mechanisms that orbit the earth is “key” in improving system reliability. Thermal vacuum testing is similar to thermal cycling but adds deep space vacuums for detecting corona/arcing and intermittence and increases a product’s out-gassing. The key failure modes found during this test are: 1) Electrical Intermittence, 2) Thermal Control Issues, 3) Arcing, 4) Corona, 5) Material Out-gassing, and more, to determine a product’s flight-worthiness for workmanship and processing issues.
We provide heating and cooling by direct contact through the use of a conductive chilling plate or the chamber’s shroud surface.
We regularly meet the requirements of contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, NASA JPL, Northrop Grumman and Astrium.
Contact us to review your particular testing needs. http://www.eatest.com
Connector Testing Lab in Ventura County, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange County, Southern California
http://www.eatest.com your ITAR APPROVED Military Connector Testing Specialists!
If your product uses a connector or terminal, it can be susceptible to a unique set of failures that warrant specific testing conditions to determine the robustness of your design.
The first step in validating your product is ensuring that your connector or terminal is in compliance to its design specification in both structure and assembly. Finding defects, from poor solder joints to bad crimping, is “key” to ensuring that your product terminations are robust. To determine if your connector is manufactured and assembled properly, we provide the following testing services:
• Axial Concentricity
• Maintenance Aging
• Contact Engaging/Separation Force
• Contact Insertion and Removal Force
• Cable Pullout
• Contact Tensile Strength
• Insert Retention
• Mating/Un-mating Force
• Durability
• Contact Retention
• Resistance to Probe Damage
• Crimp Tensile Strength
• Coupling Torque
• External Bending Moment
• Coupling Pin Strength
• Gauge Location
• Gauge Retention
• Accessory Thread Strength
• Pin Contact Stability
• Solderability
Even after a connector is properly inspected for its mechanical properties, electrical performance must be measured to ensure that impurities, contaminates or process hasn’t affected the life of the product. That is why we provide the following tests for connectors or terminals:
• Contact Resistance
• Low-Level Contact Resistance
• Insulation Resistance
• Dielectric Withstanding Voltage
• Shell-to-Shell Conductivity
• Discontinuity Monitoring
Our qualified, technical staff can prepare samples that include the assembly of the test articles, validating the pin-outs of the connector and breadboard, and the manufacturing of test leads to measure voltage drops across the connectors. For large tests, we can mount the test leads to data-acquisition terminals and set up software programs to measure all testing parameters.
The application of your connector can cause different effects to your product and to those items that communicate with your product. Environment Associates provides a number of tests to evaluate the service life of your product to your connector and terminal. These tests are as follows:
· Drop Test
· Vibration Durability while Monitoring Discontinuity
· Water Immersion
· Power Wash Testing
· Air Leakage
· Magnetic Permeability
· HALT – HASS – Accelerated Testing
· Solar Radiation
· Salt Fog
· Blowing Dust
· Temperature/Humidity – Vibration – Life Cycle Testing
· Dry Circuit Testing – Current Cyclic Testing
· Micro-Fretting
· Corrosion Testing
We are approved by the DSCC (Defense Supply Center Columbus) for testing MIL-DTL-38999 Connectors and are Registered by the US State Department to Handle ITAR designated programs!
Ingress Protection (IP) Testing in California at Environment Associates
Environment Associates in Chatsworth, California (http://www.eatest.com) offers Ingress protection (IP) testing services to specifications such as NEMA 250, IEC 60529, RTCA-DO-160, MIL-STD-810, SAE and DIN. EA offers services such as water ingress, sand and dust, solid object ingress, immersion, and fluid susceptibility using calibrated equipment and data collection that will validate your enclosure rating. Please contact us today to let us know how we can be of service on your next testing program, we can be reached at 818-709-0568, or at http://www.eatest.com, please contact Andrew Spaulding
Vibration Testing Lab near Ventura County California
http://www.eatest.com As specialists in dynamic testing, we provide equipment capable of exerting a 6,000 to 18,000 pound force with the capacity to perform closed-loop control from a single input to multiple channel inputs (from 2 to 32) with averaging or notched channel control. Vibration control systems can be programmed for real time monitoring, scheduled for length of time, or level scaled by dB or percentage, or scaled at various durations at different acceleration levels.
We have electro-dynamic shakers at 2-inch stroke and servo-dynamic shakers at 4-inch stroke with a range of capabilities. Most of our electro-dynamic shakers are attached with slip-plates to perform multi-axis testing.
We regularly perform vibration testing to MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, MIL-STD-750, MIL-STD-202, as well as ISTA, EN, IEC, and ASTM specifications. We also provide unique tests like Gunfire, Transportation Packaging and NAVMAT screening. .
When called upon, we provide specialized environments that include Temperature, Humidity, Rapid Temperature Change, Salt Spray and Combination Environments with our vibration tests that can be supervised 24/7 with on-site monitoring or remote monitoring.
The key to developing a great test plan is having vibration fixtures that are non-resonance, controllable configurations, manufactured from aluminum or magnesium materials that hold single or multiple parts for test. Many times, we stock pre-configured expansion heads and plates that can be easily incorporated to your test article, which will lower your fixture cost and accelerate your time to test. Each fixture is tested for performance and tuned to perform at its best. Let us help with your fixture designs and manufacturing needs.
Real-time performance assessment (Vehicle or Machine Vibration Data) can be provided by our systems technicians by instrumenting your product with accelerometers, thermal couples, stress and strain devices, measurements on test tracks, or machinery for improved testing in the lab. As an engineer, you need to know what you are designing for and the conditions for use so you don’t under or over test your product. Having this information is also important for your FEA design staff to determine stress input.
Vibration Testing Laboratory in Southern California
As specialists in dynamic testing, we provide equipment capable of exerting a 6,000 to 18,000 pound force with the capacity to perform closed-loop control from a single input to multiple channel inputs (from 2 to 32) with averaging or notched channel control. Vibration control systems can be programmed for real time monitoring, scheduled for length of time, or level scaled by dB or percentage, or scaled at various durations at different acceleration levels.
We have electro-dynamic shakers at 2-inch stroke and servo-dynamic shakers at 4-inch stroke with a range of capabilities. Most of our electro-dynamic shakers are attached with slip-plates to perform multi-axis testing.
We regularly perform vibration testing to MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, MIL-STD-750, MIL-STD-202, as well as ISTA, EN, IEC, and ASTM specifications. We also provide unique tests like Gunfire, Transportation Packaging and NAVMAT screening. .
When called upon, we provide specialized environments that include Temperature, Humidity, Rapid Temperature Change, Salt Spray and Combination Environments with our vibration tests that can be supervised 24/7 with on-site monitoring or remote monitoring.
The key to developing a great test plan is having vibration fixtures that are non-resonance, controllable configurations, manufactured from aluminum or magnesium materials that hold single or multiple parts for test. Many times, we stock pre-configured expansion heads and plates that can be easily incorporated to your test article, which will lower your fixture cost and accelerate your time to test. Each fixture is tested for performance and tuned to perform at its best. Let us help with your fixture designs and manufacturing needs.
Real-time performance assessment (Vehicle or Machine Vibration Data) can be provided by our systems technicians by instrumenting your product with accelerometers, thermal couples, stress and strain devices, measurements on test tracks, or machinery for improved testing in the lab. As an engineer, you need to know what you are designing for and the conditions for use so you don’t under or over test your product. Having this information is also important for your FEA design staff to determine stress input.
MIL-S-901D Lightweight Shock Testing in Southern California at Environment Associates
Environment Associates performs high impact mechanical shock which applies to equipment, machinery, systems and structures mounted on ships . The purpose of these requirements is to verify the ability of shipboard installations to withstand shock loadings which may be incurred during wartime service due to the effects of nuclear or conventional weapons. We also perform vibration per MIL-STD-167 for mechanical vibration of shipboard equipment to complement our shock testing services. Please visit our website for more information, http://www.eatest.com .
HALT TESTING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Environment Associates provides the services of accelerated testing for determining a component’s limit of operation or a system’s risk hierarchy for failure modes. EA can develop a test plan for a component, product or system that will activate potential failure modes that could cause premature warranty claims or diminish the value of your company’s brand. As an industry leader in accelerated testing, we can develop a test plan to include the type of expected service conditions for mechanical cycling, environment, electrical stress, contaminations and human unexpected use. These stress sources can be engineered into sequential singular stress tests or multiple stress environments.
EA includes thermal cyclic testing with high performance ramp rates in combination with random vibration testing as a key component for HALT and HASS testing. These two combined stress sources could be sufficient for a circuit board only test; but to reveal a product’s full set of potential failure modes, a product test must include all significant stress sources in combination with vibration and temperature. For example, a weak hinge on a plastic cover that remains in a stationary position may never show weakness if only temperature and vibration are applied, but if it is mechanically cycled while subjected to temperature and vibration, key information may be found. When you think about it, how many products do you use every day that have a singular stress? The answer is none. So we need to test with real world, combined stress sources to find real world results.
Our HALT/HASS chamber can provide 200°C to –100°C temperatures with ramp rates that can exceed 60 c/minute. We can provide vibration at 50 Grms from 10 Hz to 5 KHz. This Screening Systems chamber is best for traditional, Highly-Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) applications.
Key Benefits:
* Reduced Warranty Claims
* Quick comparison for product maturity for cost reduction changes
* Reduction in engineering development time and testing
* Rapid discovery of potential design flaws
* Testing that coincides with engineering FEA models
PLEASE VISIT US ON OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION! http://www.eatest.com
ISTA Package Testing Lab in Southern California at Environment Associates
Take a photo tour of Environment Associates’ ISTA and ASTM Package testing lab in Southern California.
EA Package Test Lab Virtual Tour
Environment Associates is a fully accredited testing laboratory that can perform your entire package testing requirements to specifications such as ASTM D4169 and ISTA. EA’s package testing capabilities include: Transportation Vibration, Drop, Bounce, Atmospheric Pressure and Conditioning, Incline, Impact, Leakage, and Crush as well as Test Planning, and Formal Certification and Reports. EA serves the medical, automotive, commercial electronics, aerospace, and military manufacturing industries. Give us a call or visit our website ( www.eatest.com ) for more information!
Environment Associates Successfully Completes Defense Logistics Agency Re-Audit!
Environment Associates announces plan to exhibit at the 2012 Spacecraft Technology Exposition in Los Angeles
Come see Environment Associates in booth #2056 at the Spacecraft Technology Expo, May 8th, 9th and 10th at the Los Angeles Convention Center! Please see more information on the exposition and how to attend at www.spacetechexpo.com. We hope to see you there!
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