What is an accelerated aging?
Accelerated aging is a form of product testing in which the product is exposed to stress to imitate the aging process. Although it is possible to evaluate products because they age naturally, accelerated aging allows people to determine how long the product will survive in the real world without waiting for the product to disintegrate naturally. This allows companies to test new products before they will be released without having to wait weeks, months, or years, while monitoring natural aging to determine what the product life could be. In these cases, it may be necessary to submit the results of the test agencies to verify. In other cases, accelerated aging is used to identify problems that should be solved before the product release. For example, if the packaging during the accelerator very quickly disintegrates the aging Aged, the company could decide to change the packaging to avoid this problem.
In these tests, the products are exposed to very intense stress far behind that they would encounter in the real world. This may include mechanical voltage, as well as a device that is difficult to see when it starts to crumble, along with extreme temperatures, moisture changes, physical trauma, etc. The aim is to simulate the aging process in a very short period of time; Which product may not be as abused in the real world as it is during accelerated aging, the cumulative tension suffered by the product during normal life may be equivalent to stress simulated in accelerated aging.
As the accelerated aging proceeds, data is recorded on how the product holds. This is then used to extrapolate potential liveliness. Some problems that people think about performing such tests include: how UV exposure can affect the product, exposure to corrosive materials, physical trauma during transport and radical temperature changes, among other things.If possible, these conditions are simulated to see what happens to the product.
Some companies perform their own home aging testing using devices that have in their laboratory. Others can send products for such testing to third -party laboratories that can perform testing. This can be done for increased reliability, or because companies lack testing devices.