Environmental chambers

The extremes of nature will find their way into all of man's designs. Heat and cold attack every component, every material and every liquid. Heat and moisture find unimagined pathways into and out of every insulated space.

Revealing hidden pathways

No design process can foresee every way that nature will penetrate and disable your product. But climatic testing will reveal them all, right before your eyes.

ST's Climatic Engineering facility provides a single location to test performance under an exceptionally wide range of conditions. Designed specifically to evaluate the performance of even the longest and largest commercial and military equipment, vehicles, and components under severe climatic conditions, the Climatic Engineering facility can produce temperatures ranging from -51° to +55°C. A full suite of instrumentation and 190 channels for data recording keeps track of performance under conditions of snow, rain, freezing rain, ice, and fog – and even a combination of those conditions, changing where needed over a period of time to simulate changing weather.

Add value in five key ways

Measuring 30 metres in length, 6 metres in width, and 6 metres in height, the ST Environmental Chamber is one of the largest and most versatile of its type in North America.

Environmental testing with ST adds value to your business and operations in five important ways

• Demonstrate that your product meets customer specifications. Qualify your products for their current and future applications in all kinds of environments. Win your customers' confidence and early sign-off, so you can land and deliver on their orders.
• Test your prototype, "weather on demand", regardless of the season. No matter what time of year, you can shift the seasons to meet your development schedule and keep your business and operations moving forward
• Specify the environmental conditions you want and hold them there. Don't chase fleeting weather conditions around the country. Keep your test team in one location and keep it productive.
• Pinpoint failure modes no matter how elusive they are. Hold or sweep through any matrix of temperatures, humidities, or precipitation and spot trouble as it emerges. Avoid the uncertainty, cost and frustration of pinning down intermittent problems.
• Subject your product to environmental extremes. Find its performance limitations before your customers find them. Set operating guidelines for your product to avoid in-service failure and warranty claims. Stay ahead of your customers and know what your product can take.

Speed with certainty

Whether your application is climatic evaluation of the HVAC system in full-size rail cars, the testing of a new de-icing agent, a torture test for new systems in a military vehicle – or so much more, the Environmental Chamber will get you there faster and with certainty.

Contact

Craig A. Ceppetelli, Business Development Manager
Rail program
Telephone: 613-998-9388
Email: Craig.Ceppetelli@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

General information:
2320 Lester Road
Ottawa, Ontario K1V 1S2

Telephone: 613-998-9639
Fax: 613-957-0831
Email: inquiries.ST@nrc.gc.ca