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Acceleration/Flight Simulation
From single payloads to highly instrumented test series, we can simulate and combine multiple flight environments.
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Explosive Overpressure Testing
Hundreds of feet of tubing can be configured to test many different energetic and hazardous materials.
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Gravity Drop
Our gravity drops can occur when a test item is released from a suspended cable, or dropped from a vertical trolley-guided system.
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High-Speed Impact
We provide many settings for impact tests, including rocket-assisted cable pulldowns, high-velocity sled tracks, mobile gun systems, and multiple environments via gas gun and actuator testing.
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Shock Testing
Mechanical shock, crush, and other high-g, tailored impact environments can be produced by sleds propelled down an indoor sled track by a horizontal actuator, or by projectiles fired from a 6-inch bore gas gun.
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Vibrafuge
This unique capability adds controlled vibration to test units under inertial loading to better simulate real flight environments.
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Water Impact
A 300-foot tower is used to conduct both free-fall drops and rocket-assisted pulldown tests into a 50-foot-deep lake below.
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Penetration Testing
Mobile Gun systems (Multiple bore sizes 6”, 12”, 18”) with velocities up to Mach III.
Firing orientation can vary from 0 degrees horizontal to 90 degrees vertical.