a wide range of climatic tests

Among the many environmental tests required during the qualification phase of your products, VITESS testing center covers a wide range of climatic tests that can be divided in multiple categories:

    • – Heat, cold regulated constant with or without humidity
    • – Temperature cycles with or without humidity
    • – Rapid change of temperature up to 20°C/min
    • – Thermal shocks air/air and air/water
    • – Salt spray / corrosion
    • – Ingress Protection (IP) :

– First characteristic numeral from IP1x to IP6x (protection against solid foreign objects inluding dust and against access)

– Second characteristic numeral from IPx1 to IPx9K (protection against water)

  • – Protection against impacts from IK01 to IK10
  • – Solar radiation/ UV
  • – Ageing
  • – Fluid susceptibility (fuels, lubricating oils, solvents, cleaning liquids, de-icing fluids, insecticides, sodas…)
  • – Sand and dust (air velocity, temperature, humidity, concentration in particules interlock)
  • – Wind exposure
  • – Immersion / Tightness
  • – Frost, ice, snow
  • – Freeze / Thaw
  • – Fluids circulation (temperature, pressure and flow interlock)
  • – Resistance to flame, flammability
  • – Gravel bombardment

Our testing center is equipped with many climatic enclosures of different characteristics (volume, range and temperature variation speed, humidity, salt spray…) within a volume range from a few liters to our biggest enclosure of 60 m3. This specific equipment pool allows us to adapt to all size and weight of test specimens and to meet at best your needs.

Contact us for all your ageing / temperature and humidity cycles, thermal shocks, salt spray, sand & dust… test requests.

You will find below a more exhaustive or our testing means.

For specific requirements, we are able to design and manufacture customized testing enclosures and follow your specification or not standard test.

We work every day for many cutting-edge industries such as the aeronautic, defense, space, automotive, railway, marine, but also nuclear, energy, textile…

The climatic tests in these industries are regulated by standards and our testing center strictly follow them:

– Field standards:

  • – CEI 60068-2-1 Cold
  • – CEI 60068-2-2 Dry heat
  • – CEI 60068-2-14 Change of temperature
  • – CEI 60068-2-30 / CEI 60068-2-38 / CEI 60068-2-78 Damp heat
  • – CEI 60529 / ISO 20653 / CEI 60068-2-18 Ingress protection IP
  • – CEI 60068-2-11 / ISO 9227 / ASTM G85 / VDA 233-102 Salt spray – Corrosion
  • – CEI 60068-2-68 Sand and dust

– Standards linked to industries:

  • – RTCA DO-160 / EUROCAE ED-14
  • – MIL-STD-810
  • – STANAG 4370 AECTP 300
  • – DEF STAN
  • – ISO 16750-4
  • – EN 50125

– Standards form European, American, Asian manufacturers

VITESS is also able to adapt to specific requirements to perform special or not standard tests. We study every test specification in order to best answer the multiple needs and create the ideal testing mean.
The flexibility of our testing center also allows us to perform combined vibrations, temperature and fluid circulation tests.

Here are listed the main testing means we have in order to execute your climatic tests:

  • – 26 climatic enclosures from 0.6 m3 to 60 m3 (temperature range = -75°C to +200°C; maximum variation : 20°C /min; relative humidity: 10 to 95%)
  • – ATEX flameproof enclosures from 1 m3 to 40 m3
  • – High temperature oven (maximum temperature = 1100 °C)
  • – 4 salt spray benches (VDA) from 1.5 m3 to 38 m3
  • – Dust bench (talc, arizona, silica, red china…) from 1 m3 to 30 m3
  • – Air vein from 0 to 40 m/s at an adjustable temperature from 25°C to 90°C
  • – Ingress Protection rating benches
  • – 10 fluids circulation benches at high and low temperature
  • – Resistance to flame bench

* All our testing means are adjustable and customizable in order to answer specific demands, whose technical requirements are out standards or needing higher constraints than usual tests.

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