Fundamentals of Climatic Testing

Fundamentals of Climatic Testing

OBJECTIVES

Review of the different types of climatic tests and when and how to apply them. Tests include temperature, temperature shock, humidity, altitude, rain, solar, salt/fog, ice, dust/sand, and more.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for those involved in Environmental Testing that need to understand the specs for a variety of different industries, as well as how to set environmental test conditions for products that aren’t governed by specifications.

OUTLINE

Pretest documentation

• Test plan – differs from procedure – needed content – sample test plan
• Test procedure
• Why needed?
• Content – importance of each part
• How to write
• Outline of sample test procedure

Temperature testing

• Test requirements
• High temperature/Low Temperature
• Storage or non-operating
  • Source of test requirements
  • What test can reveal
• Operating
  • Source of test requirements
  • What test can reveal
• Appropriate operation during exposure to test environment; pitfalls
• Test equipment
  • Chambers – their heating, cooling and control
  • Instrumentation: sensors, readouts, recording
• Setting up for a typical test
• Preparing a typical test item to be tested
• Conducting the actual test
• Recording of data
• Data reduction

Other Climatic Tests – subtopics for each similar to temperature testing

• Temperature shock testing
• Altitude testing
• Humidity testing
• Solar radiation testing
• Rain testing
• Immersion testing
• Icing/Freezing rain testing
• Fungus testing
• Salt fog testing
• Sand and Dust testing
• Explosive atmosphere testing

Reporting on the test

• Who will use the information?
• Content
• Format – presenting data