Business Areas Space Structures and Optics Thermal Management and Electronics Enlcosures Missile Defense Materials and Structures Technical Missile Structures and Subsystems Testing Services |
| Testing Services SDC offers a large suite of testing services for MDA structural systems. Beginning at the coupon and subcomponent level, SDC can perform mechanical testing of composite materials from -200°F to + 1150°F using the 20 kip United test machine combined with the ATS environmental test chamber. For rapid heating conditions typical in MDA flights, SDC uses a quartz lamp heating assembly combined with the United test machine to achieve rapid heating at 60°F/sec heating rate for composite materials. The quartz lamp assembly has several configuration options including focused beam, line and panel heaters. In addition, SDC uses its conditioning chamber to prepare components as well as subcomponents for hot/wet testing. At the full scale level, SDC is conducting full scale static and dynamic testing using an in-house Modular Test Frame. The frame is sized to test structures as large as 6 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter. SDC provides all instrumentation and collects data using a Dewetron high speed data acquisition. The Dewetron has a programmable scan rate, gain and excitation settings, 16-bit D/A, double buffered measurements as well as Bridge completion, shunt and null capabilities.
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