Climatic & Environmental Simulation Testing

We can simulate under controlled yet accelerated conditions how your products will sustain the rigors of time in the field.

Micom Laboratories is an ISO 17025 (A2LA) accredited testing laboratory offering numerous environmental test services are for various industries:

• Automotive environmental testing (BRP, SAE Testing, GM Testing, Ford Motor Company, Honda Testing, Nissan Testing, Volvo, and much more)
• Medical device environmental testing
• Environmental testing of electronics
• Environmental package testing
• Aerospace
• Military

What Is Climatic & Environmental Testing?

Environmental testing is used to simulate outdoor and/or indoor conditions, such as extremely high and low temperatures for a product or a material. Heat, cold, humidity, and other variables can be used to stress your product. In today’s environment of fast product development and product liability, climate and environmental simulation testing are necessary to ensure your product’s performance.

Why Is Environmental Testing Important?

There are many reasons for your company to proceed with an environmental simulation test. It will often give you an edge between success and failure. For example, if you launch a new product, how can you ensure you will not get tangled up in a web of warranty issues. Environmental & climatic tests can help determine your product’s reliability and how it will perform in the field.

1. Meet/exceeds your industry standards
2. You want to offer a better Improved product performance and reliability vs competitors
3. Product liability
4. Design validation

Environmental Stresses

Environmental stresses are often applied to the products being studied one at a time.  However, most products need to be tested against more than one environmental stress so that an accurate assessment of their predictable field performance can be assessed.

What Are the Types of Environmental Simulation Testing?

The most common environmental simulations we usually expose products and materials to include:

When doing environmental simulation testing it is important to have a good understanding of the product characteristics, the normal use conditions, what constitutes a foreseeable abuse and what is the product’s life expectancy. Most of these tests are done on an accelerated basis as many products have a life expectancy that spans over a few years, sometimes more.  There is, however, a limit to the stress levels we can expose the products to without starting to cause failure mechanisms that would not naturally occur in typical field applications.  For this reason, it is important to have an environmental test plan that takes your product characteristics and applications into account.

All Temperature and Humidity Typical Cycle Graph

Measuring Mechanical Properties After Environmental Simulation Testing

In many cases, once the climatic and environmental simulation testing process is completed, physical and mechanical measurements need to be made on the samples to assess whether or not their properties were impacted.

Micom offers a whole host of mechanical, physical and physico-chemical tests. Our material testing lab is ISO 17025 (A2LA) accredited allowing performing testing in industry standards.

For more post-test evaluation test methods, we invite you to read more about material testing and ASTM testing.

If you have any questions about environmental testing or other material testing services, we invite you to contact us today. Our material testing experts will be happy to recommend proper testing conditions, addressing your specific concerns and custom testing needs.