Aging of all kinds of products causes hundreds of millions of dollars of economic losses every year. The damage caused by the material mainly includes discoloration, loss of light.
Accelerated Weathering Testing for material is required to ensure that materials and products perform as intended and last as long as they should.
Accelerated weathering tests included color change, gloss loss, chalking, cracking, crazing, hazing, blistering, strength loss and oxidation, and many others.
Accelerated weathering test methods simulate extreme weather conditions using special environmental chambers and instruments that speed up the weathering process. The outside and interior of a product might deteriorate due to environmental factors such as color change, cracking, corrosion, and deterioration. Investigating your product’s weathering process is crucial to determining its ability to endure the natural pressures that will occur during its lifetime.
Xenon aging test chamber
Xenon lamp weather resistance test chamber, to determine the color fastness, aging resistance of textiles, plastics, rubber products or materials by objecting to the simulated conditions of nature weather (daylight, rain, temperature, and humidity, etc.)
UV aging test chamber
UV weathering test chamber creates artificial weathering condition with combination of UV light, temperature, condensing humidity, water sprays, and irradiance control in order to test damaging results of material by long term outdoor exposure.
Below are some basic colorfastness test standards:
- ISO105-B04(B10) Textiles – Tests for colorfastness – Part B04: Colorfastness to weathering: xenon accelerated weathering test chamber.
- ISO105-B03 Textile – Tests for colorfastness – Part B03: Colorfastness to weathering outdoor exposure.
- AATCC TM16 Colorfastness to light – General method
- ISO 105-B02 Textiles – Tests for colorfastness – Part B02: Colorfastness to artificial light: xenon arc fading lamp test.
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