Environmental Testing Service
The Environmental Test Facility (ETF) conducts tests based on the whole life-cycle process in simulated environments. Complete climatic and dynamic test capabilities are available for testing to military and other environmental standards. The ETF is adequately equipped with a variety of test support equipment to monitor all test variables to provide real-time or post-test analyses.
Capabilities
- Multiple instrumentation and climatic chambers, including Large C4ISR Chamber
- Chambers from 2 to 5,830 sq. ft.
- Precisely controlled and 100% repeatable conditions
- Can accommodate test items up to 16’L x 11’W x 10’H (expandable to 53’)
- Can meet all requirements called out in MIL-STD-810 and DO-160 with few exceptions
- Natural and Induced Environmental Acceptance Tests
- Climatic Testing:
- Temperature-Humidity (-151° – 200° Celsius)
- Temperature-Altitude-Humidity (-65° – 121° Celsius, 99% humidity, 120,000’ altitude)
- Reliability/Life Cycle
- Temperature-Humidity-Vibration
- Rain (up to 26” per hour, with or without winds up to 120mph)
- Sunshine (up to 1,400 watts per m2)
- Blowing Sand/Dust/Rain (up to 120 mph, densities up to 10 grams per ft3)
- Large (50’x20’x20’) Heated Blowing Sand and Dust Facility
- Settling Dust
- Fungus (28-day tests)
- Salt-Fog (corrosion tests, up to 20% concentrations by weight)
- Explosive Atmospheric Tests (n-Hexane and Hydrogen)
- Immersion Tests (Both Salt or Fresh Water to depths of 300ft BSL)
- Icing
- Snow Generation/Snow Loading
- Rapid Decompression
- Dynamic Testing:
- Vibration
- Shock
- Transit Drop
- Loose Cargo
- Vehicle Bounce
- Gunfire Simulation
- MIL-S-901 Lightweight Shock Testing
- Other Capabilities:
- Global Positioning System (GPS) Chamber Testing
- Search and Rescue Beacon Certification Facility
- Bench handling, and contamination by fluids