ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SERVICES. Product and component performance verification

ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SERVICES

Product and component performance verification

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environmental testing

State-of-the-art technology and increased demands for product and component reliability have intensified the need for advanced environmental testing. Vipac is a NATA accredited, ISO 17025 compliant, fully independent testing laboratory. Our Environmental Testing Centres of Excellence offer a broad range of vibration, pressure and climatic testing capabilities.

We test to a wide range of international, industry and client specific standards and provide services to many market sectors including:

• Motor vehicle

• Automotive components

• Rail

• Aerospace electronic equipment

• Defence electronic equipment

• Medical devices

• Consumer and electronic devices

(mobile phones, radio systems etc.)

• Industrial components (controllers,

actuators, etc.)

• Packaging (pharmaceutical, food and

beverage, consumer products etc.)

Vipac offers a variety of test facilities for a broad range of testing requirements including:

• Vibration and shock testing

• Combined temperature and

vibration testing

• Temperature and humidity testing

• Water and dust ingress protection testing

• Driving sand and dust testing

• Salt corrosion testing

• Solar irradiation testing

• Drop testing

• Hardness testing

• Flammability testing

• Chemical resistance and exposure testing

• Structural load testing

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Vipac is contracted by many companies to provide confidential testing services to a wide range of standards including:

Other Tests

• High intensity acoustic tests – up to 145dB

• Explosive de-compression tests

• Rain and moisture leakage tests

• Salt fog test

• Sand and dust penetration tests to most

customer’s requirements and for any product – small parts up to container size

• Bounce tests – for packaging and

transport of goods.

As well as testing to industry and regulatory standards, our experience and capabilities are employed by clients to develop testing regimes as part of their product development cycle.

Vehicle and automotive component tests can be carried out to automotive standards such as those of Ford, Holden, Mitsubishi and Toyota.

environmental testing

Accelerated life testing enables

faults to be discovered in a short

amount of time helping to minimise

failures in the field and costly recalls.

It also helps with prediction of service

life and maintenance intervals.

Vipac have extensive environmental testing facilities including:

Environmental chambers

• Twelve climatic chambers

• Volume 0.25m3 _{to 56m}3

• Temperature ranges -64°C to +130°C

• Relative humidity 5% to 98%

• Dust, Water Ingress and Salt Spray

environmental chambers

• Three altitude chambers

Vibration

• Seven shakers from 8 to 60kN

• Up to 50mm displacement

Shock

• Five shock machines up to 1200G

• 901D light weight and medium

weight shock

Mechanical

• Three mechanical fatigue testers up

to 100kN

Conditions can be controlled to tight tolerances in Vipac’s environmental chambers:

• The Environmental Test Chamber, measuring 14m long x 5.5m wide and 4.5m high, is certified to test through a temperature range from -5°C to +60°C and humidity from 40% to 95%. It incorporates a 30 lamp CSI solar simulator, allowing any

sunlight condition to above 1120W/m2 _to

be reproduced. Diurnal cycling can also be conducted.

• The High Temperature Chamber (2.2m x 2m x 2m) provides for testing from ambient to 250°C.

• The Balanced Temperature and Humidity Chamber (3m x 3m x 3m) allows testing from 20% to 95% relative humidity and from -80°C to +150°C.

• The Thermal Shock Chamber allows testing from -80°C to +220°C Various smaller chambers covering dry heat, humidity and temperature shock cycling for testing smaller products or parts.

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testing technical specifications

Climatic Testing

Temperature range -65°C to +180°C

Humidity range 10 to 99% RH

Test articles Various Chambers around 1m3

Chambers measuring up to 6m x 4m x 3m available

Mechanical Shock Testing

Vertical drop Up to 20,000G, 0.2ms halfsine,

43m/s, <50kg, 300mm wide platform

Up to 2000G and between 1ms and 20 ms halfsine, <125kg, 500mm wide platform

Up to 350G and between 1ms and 30ms halfsine, <900kg, 1m wide platform

Incline drop Incline up to 100G and between

5ms and 50ms halfsine, 4m x 2m x 1m typical capacity

Underwater shock 200G, test items up to 200kg (MIL

901D Light Weight) Vibration Testing Electro-dynamic Up to 24kN, 5 to 5kHz, +/- 38mm displacement Hydraulic Up to 60kN, 2-90Hz, 300mm displacement Mechanical 2-8Hz, 25mm displacement, 1500kg, 2x1.2x1.2m table Bump, transport and loose load

Pressure and Altitude Testing

Pressure Up to 34MPa

Altitude Up to 50,000 ft equivalent

and –65°C

Rapid and explosive decompression Pressure

and vacuum

Chambers up to Ø1400mm x 2500mm

Other Testing

Constant acceleration Up to 20G and a load of up to 50kg Mechanical

strength (structural load) testing

Multichannel, multiaxis, static and fatigue testing

Up to 100kN (static) and 0.1 to 10Hz, 500mm displacement (fatigue) Solar

irradiation testing

Indoor solar simulator with maximum

area 5m2 _{variable up to 1200W/m}2

Outdoor solar tracker with dual axis tracking mechanism with maximum area of 6m2

Outdoor test rig facilities up to

maximum of 12m2

Chemical resistance and exposure tests

Various automotive, aerospace or domestic chemicals

Electrical Electrical safety and energy

performance testing

Noise Airborne noise monitoring

and analysis

Structure born noise monitoring and analysis

Protection Testing

IP testing IP11 to IP68 with up to

8m immersion

Rain testing To MIL 810G

Corrosion testing Salt spray & other corrosives,

2m x 1.2m x 0.6m tank

Mechanical impact IK testing using vertical, pendulum

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environmental testing services

environmental testing services

Environmental Testing Laboratories

Sydney

Adelaide

Automotive

Manufacturing

Building Components

Defence

Aerospace

Consumer Electronics

Industrial Components

Packaging

MARKETS

Rail

Medical Equipment

Melbourne

CONTACTS

OFFICE LOCATIONS

Geoff Peacock

Sales Engineer

BEng(Elec), DipEng(Mech), DipBus(Mgmt)

MMgt(Marketing)

Jay Bagga

Sales Executive

Gregory R King

Operations Manager

Environmental Testing Australia

PERTH

OFFICES ALSO IN SINGAPORE & HONG KONG See back cover for contact details

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ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SERVICES

Product and component performance verification

Melbourne

Corporate Head Office t. +613 9647 9700 f. +613 9646 4370 e. [email protected] Adelaide t. +618 8362 5445 f. +618 8362 0793 e. [email protected] Brisbane t. +617 3377 0400 f. +617 3377 0499 e. [email protected] Hobart t. +613 6244 5556 f. +613 6245 9200 e. [email protected] Hong Kong t. +852 2528 9378 f. +852 2987 8217 e. [email protected] Hunter Valley t. +612 4950 5833 f. +612 4950 4276 e. [email protected] Launceston t. +613 6343 2077 f. +613 6343 4849 e. [email protected] Perth t. +618 9277 3335 f. +618 9277 3325 e. [email protected] Singapore t. +65 6353 8711 f. +65 6353 4211 e. [email protected] Sydney t. +612 9422 4222 f. +612 9420 5911 e. [email protected]

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