Environmental Experimental Facilities

This large complex conducts environmental experimentation and evaluation of material during R&D;, production and qualification programs. It contains numerous vibration equipment (electro-dynamic), loose cargo machines, vertical shock machines, jolt/jumble, Air Guns (2 in, 5 in, 155mm), spin equipment, climatic chambers for temperature/humidity, altitude (low and high pressure), salt spray, 120 ft drop tower, and environmental stress screening (ESS). The facilities are equipped for on-line data monitoring and analysis of the equipment for both explosive and inert testing. This facility has multiple isolated bays to test explosively loaded hardware. The technical staff assists the scientific community in designing experiments and conducting investigations in natural and induced environmental phenomena in order to study their effects on mission items, and to provide inputs to environmental criteria to test methodologies and standards.