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National Technical Systems
Will your product operate in a highly volatile environment without creating ignition and causing an explosion? Explosive atmosphere testing provides vital information about motors, lighting systems, bilge pumps, aircraft components, electronics, and other systems. Explosive atmosphere testing determines whether a product will be able to operate properly in a fuel contaminated, highly volatile environment without creating ignition and causing an explosion. Causes of ignition vary from tiny electrical arcs in battery-operated equipment to hot spots on surfaces of sealed, encased units, to sparks from other mechanical sources.
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National Technical Systems
NTS’s Camden, Arkansas location is proud to host the National ordnance and Ballistics Test Center, one of the best-equipped military ordnance and munitions testing facilities in the country. NTS Camden is a multidisciplinary test facility that has been designed from the ground up to provide a safe, cost-effective theatre for ordnance and munitions-related analysis, including armor testing, explosives testing and more.
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National Technical Systems
Airworthiness authorities require that aircraft be protected and certified against the effects of lightning, but few such regulations exist for sensitive facilities on the ground. If it is possible to protect an aircraft that is highly dependent on electronics from a direct lightning strike, it is certainly possible to protect important ground-based facilities. For this purpose, professionals must re-evaluate and update lightning protection methods for advanced facilities. NTS and Lightning Technologies have been in the forefront of this technology for more than 20 years.
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National Technical Systems
When a product or device fails, you need to know why. Root cause failure analysis helps a business get to the source of a product failure. More importantly, it provides the manufacturer with the information needed to address and correct the issue causing the failure.
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National Technical Systems
Nearly every material known to man is subject to fatigue failure. This is true of polymers, plastics, composites, and metals. The general rule is as follows: if a person can bend something back and forth enough times, they can eventually break it.
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National Technical Systems
NTS is equipped to test optical fiber, cable and active/passive components and systems. At NTS we test against a variety of specifications including Telcordia, Military, TIA/EIA, and ISO. We also perform customized test programs against specifications or test plans developed with or for our customers. Our in-house Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) can also help develop and present customized training programs to address a variety of our customer’s needs. Testing is not our only area of expertise; our Consulting Services are available to assist manufacturers in designing, troubleshooting, and delivering a quality product to market. Our goal is simple: to help our clients make the most efficient use of their products in their systems, network designs and deployments. NTS has invested heavily in optical equipment – our overall chamber capacity is one of the largest in North America. We have recently tripled our switch capacity by adding new high channel count JDS and EXFO switches which allows us to run multiple single mode and multi-mode programs simultaneously. Our lab is outfitted to make spectral measurements using tunable lasers, OSAs, white light sources and monochromator based systems.
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National Technical Systems
Will your products, subsystems or components operate as designed when exposed to fire conditions, or will they go up in flames? Fire and flammability testing is required for products used in a wide range of industries, including Aerospace, Defense, Telecommunications, and Consumer Electronics. NTS offers fire and flammability testing services, typically falling into two categories: 1) ignition and flame spread, and 2) fire resistance.
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National Technical Systems
Firearms require extensive testing before they are suitable for either the consumer market or for use in combat situations. At National Technical Systems (NTS), our facilities have been specially designed to meet these testing requirements. Our test ranges are equipped with industry-leading monitoring and data acquisition equipment that make both regulatory compliance and general QA simple.
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National Technical Systems
There are generally two types of bending tests. Three-point bend and 4-point bend. The materials that are tested using the flex test method vary from metal, plastic, wood, laminates, particle board, dry wall, ceramic tile, to glass. Bending tests vary greatly based on the product being tested.
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National Technical Systems
Flexural Strength Testing is used to determine the flex or bending properties of a material. Sometimes referred to as a transverse beam test, it involves placing a sample between two points or supports and initiating a load using a third point or with two points which are respectively called 3-Point Bend and 4-Point Bend testing.
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National Technical Systems
NTS performs a wide variety of fluid testing across a large spectrum of pressure, temperature, and rated fluid flow, as well as combined testing programs on a vast array of aerospace fluid components and systems such as process air, bleed and ram air, fuel systems, hydraulic systems, high pressure systems and cryogenic systems.
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National Technical Systems
NTS has extensive abilities in fluid testing. We’ve tested a large variety of products, from pipe fittings to process controllers, flexhoses to pressure vessels, valves to actuators, tank liners to heat exchangers, water to Skydrol. We have tested these products for a variety of measurements, from viscosity to flash point and auto ignition, among others. NTS fluids testing facilities are equipped with computerized data acquisition, reduction and analysis equipment for monitoring the functional characteristics of specimens during testing. NTS has considerable expertise in high flow testing of small devices – such as meters, indicators, totalizers, sensors, transmitters, and check valves.
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National Technical Systems
Our novel, stand-alone, water in fuel/fuel icing test stand is equipped to perform testing in accordance with SAE ARP 1401 and MIL-F-8615D on aerospace fuel system components sub-systems and systems, along with our neighboring test stand designed to run contaminated fuel testing in accordance with MIL-F-8615D and SAE ARP 8615.
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National Technical Systems
NTS’ Fuel Systems & Component Testing site at Santa Clarita is used for the development and qualification of fuel line parts and subsystems. Any individual device or subsystem that is part of an engine or fuel system – such as fuel pumps, hydro-mechanical fuel controls and shutoff valves – requires qualification testing to the RTCA DO-160 environmental standards for airborne equipment or the Mil-STD 810G environmental standards for a broad range of military equipment. The fuel testing site installed at NTS Santa Clarita is a state-of-the-art facility for simulating the most stringent environmental conditions.
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National Technical Systems
Are you releasing a new product or revising an existing product? NTS can exercise your product’s functionality throughout the development lifecycle – alpha, beta and/or golden master phases of development. NTS can start by developing comprehensive test plans, detailing test methodologies or you can supply us with a test plan to execute. Functionality testing can be performed on hardware or software products to verify that your product functions as designed.
