ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SERVICES. Product and component performance verification

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1 ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING SERVICES Product and component performance verification

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3 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 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 Testing to client specific requirements. environmental testing services 3

4 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 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. 4 environmental testing services

5 facilities Vipac have extensive environmental testing facilities including: Environmental chambers Twelve climatic chambers Volume 0.25m 3 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/m 2 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.

6 testing technical specifications Climatic Testing Temperature range Humidity range -65 C to +180 C 10 to 99% RH Test articles Various Chambers around 1m 3 Chambers measuring up to 6m x 4m x 3m available Protection Testing IP testing Rain testing Corrosion testing Mechanical impact IP11 to IP68 with up to 8m immersion To MIL 810G Salt spray & other corrosives, 2m x 1.2m x 0.6m tank IK testing using vertical, pendulum and spring hammer Vibration Testing Electro-dynamic Up to 24kN, 5 to 5kHz, +/- 38mm displacement Other Testing Constant acceleration Up to 20G and a load of up to 50kg Hydraulic Mechanical Up to 60kN, 2-90Hz, 300mm displacement 2-8Hz, 25mm displacement, 1500kg, 2x1.2x1.2m table Mechanical strength (structural load) testing Multichannel, multiaxis, static and fatigue testing Up to 100kN (static) and 0.1 to 10Hz, 500mm displacement (fatigue) Bump, transport and loose load Solar irradiation testing Indoor solar simulator with maximum area 5m 2 variable up to 1200W/m 2 Pressure and Altitude Testing Pressure Altitude Pressure and vacuum Mechanical Shock Testing Vertical drop Up to 34MPa Up to 50,000 ft equivalent and 65 C Rapid and explosive decompression Chambers up to Ø1400mm x 2500mm 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 Chemical resistance and exposure tests Electrical Noise Outdoor solar tracker with dual axis tracking mechanism with maximum area of 6m 2 Outdoor test rig facilities up to maximum of 12m 2 Various automotive, aerospace or domestic chemicals Electrical safety and energy performance testing Airborne noise monitoring and analysis Structure born noise monitoring and analysis Incline drop Underwater shock Incline up to 100G and between 5ms and 50ms halfsine, 4m x 2m x 1m typical capacity 200G, test items up to 200kg (MIL 901D Light Weight) 6 environmental testing services

7 environmental testing services Environmental Testing Australia Environmental Testing Laboratories Melbourne Adelaide Sydney Rail Medical Equipment Packaging Manufacturing Defence OFFICE LOCATIONS MARKETS Consumer Electronics Industrial Components Building Components Automotive Aerospace CONTACTS Geoff Peacock Sales Engineer BEng(Elec), DipEng(Mech), DipBus(Mgmt) PERTH OFFICES ALSO IN SINGAPORE & HONG KONG See back cover for contact details ADELAIDE MELBOURNE LAUNCESTON HOBART BRISBANE HUNTER VALLEY SYDNEY Jay Bagga Sales Executive MMgt(Marketing) Gregory R King Operations Manager BSc(Hons), MSc, CEng, MInstR, FIMechE, FCIBSE, MAIRAH environmental testing services 7

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