Environment Associates Inc.
Environment Associates offers a variety of environmental testing solutions for qualification and reliability test needs. With over 55 years in operation, WE KNOW TESTING. Our testing division can precisely simulate and control environments to test products ranging from military connectors, and life-supporting medical equipment to commercial and military aircraft instrumentation and satellite components. Using state of the art equipment, our technicians have the experience and knowledge to induce the exact test conditions you need
- (818) 709-0568
- bob@eatest.com
- joshb@eatest.com
- 9604 Variel Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
United States of America
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Shock Impact Testing
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Environment Associates provides everything you need in drop shock testing — package/container, drop shock/impact systems and electro-dynamic simulated pulses. With our equipment, we specialize in tuned, matched impacts from 20 Gs to 30,000 Gs and from 30 ms to .02 ms in sine, saw-tooth, square-wave, gunfire and rotational cam pulses for almost any set of standards, or for any real-life condition. We can also handle a large range of weights and sizes. EA’s specialists will match the right test, equipment and configurations to your product. We also provide fixture design and special set-up solutions to mount and monitor your product’s functionality during and after testing.
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Fungus Testing
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Fungus can cause products to malfunction during operation and can grow on just about anything if the conditions are right. It will break down certain plastics, rubbers, paints and gaskets if it attaches itself and is left to grow. Fungus is known to short out electronic circuits.
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Acceleration (Centrifuge) Testing
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Environment Associates provides centrifuge equipment for acceleration testing. Our acceleration testing equipment measures 3 ft. (0.91 m) and a 6 ft. (1.82 m) lengths that provides constant accelerations of 50 Gs and can handle payloads of 20 lbs. to 50 lbs. The Acceleration Testing is also called G-Force Testing
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Tensile & Compression Testing
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If you are looking for a value on the forces needed to assemble a product, or what it will take to overcome a connector latch or other device that mates together, let Environment Associates perform these tests for you. We can test in both tensile and compression on samples that are less than 14" (35.56 cm) wide and can handle product travel less than 54" (137.6 cm), with sensitivities at 0.01 lbs. (4.53 grams) at a wide range of speeds. EA specializes in the determination of connector performance for many different applications and styles.
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Pyroshock Testing
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The purpose of Pyroshock (pyrotechnic shock) testing is to simulate the high-frequency, high-magnitude shock pulse experienced by an explosive event (such as an impact on a military tank or an explosive deployment charge). Pyroshock testing can expose failures in electronic components that are sensitive to high-frequency pyroshock energy. Common failures include: relay and crystal oscillator chatter, detachment of larger components from the circuit board, hard failures of small circuit components, and the dislodging of contaminants, which cause short circuits. Severe damage to crucial components used in space or in the military can produce critical results, such as loss of life, due to malfunction.
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Accelerated Aging Testing
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Accelerated aging is a testing method used to estimate the useful lifespan of a product when actual lifespan data is unavailable. This occurs with products that have not existed long enough to have gone through their useful lifespan: for example, a new type of car engine or a new polymer for replacement joints or medical products and packaging.
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Thermal Vacuum Testing
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When you want to test your product for extreme space conditions, that include temperatures from 155°C to -175°C at space vacuum altitudes, Environment Associates is your solution. Using this test to determine the unique failures of space mechanisms that orbit the earth is key in improving system reliability. Thermal vacuum testing is similar to thermal cycling but adds deep space vacuums for detecting corona/arcing and intermittence and increases a product’s out-gassing. The key failure modes found during this test are: 1) electrical iIntermittence, 2) thermal control issues, 3) arcing, 4) corona, 5) material out-gassing, and more, to determine a product’s flight-worthiness for workmanship and processing issues.
