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.
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
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Storage or non-operating
- Source of test requirements
- What test can reveal
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Operating
- Source of test requirements
- What test can reveal
- Appropriate operation during exposure to test environment; pitfalls
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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