Thermal Shock Testing
Simulate real life environmental conditions
Thermal shock testing chambers are used for environmental stress screening as well as highly accelerated life testing.
Firms in numerous industries such as micro-electronic and electrical, telecom, automotive and aerospace often undertake thermal shock testing in order to accelerated aging of their components and simulate how components would behave in real life extreme environmental conditions.
Test extreme conditions in simulated environment
Most thermal shock testing chambers allow the automatic transfer of testing components and samples from a cold cabinet with cold temperatures reaching -75 ºC to a second cabinet with hot temperatures as high as +200 ºC. This automatic transfer can happen all in the span of 20 seconds or less.
By repeatedly exposing samples to changing extreme conditions, you can accelerate their component material degradation and in result accelerate their aging. This type of accelerated aging tests
enables firms to better understand how their products would behave in real world applications.
Numerous tests and industries
Numerous material tests can be done using Thermal Shock Testing including:
Military / Defence
- MIL-STD 883 method 1011.9 Test Method Standard Microcircuits - Thermal Shock
- MIL-STD-810 meth 503.4 Temperature shock
Aerospace
- TS325 Test for Electrical Connectors Thermal Shock
- TS348 Test for Electrical Connectors Thermal Shock (for Hermetically Sealed Connectors)
Automotive
- GMW3112 - General Motors test for airbag deployment
- Honda S5AA - Honda test for thermal shock, drop test and vibration
- Nissan 98560NDSOO - Nissan test for high/low temperatures -70 ºC to 190 ºC
- Toyota TSF6761G - Toyota test for thermal shock temperatures -70 ºC to 190 ºC