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Faraday Test Centre's Environmental Lab
Helmet system undergoing a rain test in the Environmental Test Laboratory
This section of the laboratory specialises in simulating environmental conditions that occur in service. Test results confirm whether equipment can withstand extreme environments ranging from high and low temperatures, to rapid decompression, to gunfire vibrations, to salt corrosion.
The Environmental Test Laboratory’s extensive climatic and dynamic test facilities include:
- High/low temperature
- Humidity
- Low pressure
- Positive pressure
- Thermal shock
- Salt corrosion
- Rapid decompression
- Driving rain
- Immersion
- Over-pressure
- Water-proofness
- Fluid contamination
- Drop and topple/free fall
- Bump
- Shock
- Vibration (sinusoidal random and gunfire)
- Acceleration
- Combined temperature/vibration
Chamber sizes vary, up to a large walk-in temperature/humidity chamber typically suitable for items that are six feet high with a 19-inch rack.
Jig design and advice for vibration and shock mounting are available.
The facility also includes a Lansmont Shock Machine (table size 95cm x 95cm; maximum specimen weight 454kg; maximum acceleration 600g; pulse duration 2msec min / 80msec max).
