The Core Significance of Aging Life Testing in Environmental Chambers
The primary purpose of aging life testing in environmental chambers is to predict a product’s actual service life. Natural environmental factors such as light, temperature, humidity, oxygen, and corrosive gases slowly cause product materials to age, leading to embrittlement of plastics, cracking of rubber, corrosion of metals, and performance degradation of electronic components. The natural aging process often takes months or even years, making it difficult to meet the demands of rapid product development and market launch. Environmental chambers artificially simulate these environmental factors and increase their intensity to create accelerated aging conditions. These conditions can complete the equivalent of several years of natural aging in just a few weeks or months, enabling rapid prediction of a product’s actual service life. This provides data support for product design improvements, material selection, and shelf life setting.
Secondly, this test can assess the aging resistance of product materials and structures. Different materials have varying tolerances to environmental factors, and different components of the same product may age at different rates under the same conditions. Environmental chamber aging life testing can apply various environmental stresses, such as high temperature and humidity, UV light, and ozone exposure, to the entire product or key components, either individually or in combination. The test observes changes in the material’s appearance (such as discoloration, cracking, and deformation), physical properties (such as hardness, strength, and elasticity), and electrical properties (such as insulation resistance and conductivity). This allows the aging resistance of the material and structure to be assessed, allowing the selection of materials and design solutions that are most suitable for specific application scenarios.
Furthermore, the test results can provide a basis for product quality control and reliability improvement. During mass production, environmental chamber aging life testing of sampled products can be used to monitor product quality stability. If testing reveals that a batch of products ages significantly faster than the standard, this may indicate an anomaly in the production process, such as a substandard raw material batch or deviations in process parameters. The company can then take timely corrective measures to prevent substandard products from entering the market. At the same time, by analyzing the aging problems found in the test, companies can optimize the production process, improve the product structure or select higher-quality materials in a targeted manner, thereby continuously improving the reliability of the product.
Test Space: 100-1000L (customizable)
Test Temperature: -50-150°C (customizable)
Test Humidity: 20-98RH
Double 85 environmental test chamber
