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Product TestingAs much as Centor Architectural enjoys being innovative, ensuring products meet and exceed the highest standards for durability is equally a passion. This means significant investment in repeatedly testing systems under the toughest of conditions – then testing them again!
Finite Element Analysis Our testing regime first starts with Finite Element Analysis. FEA is a computerized simulation technique where components are exposed to virtual operating environments and accurate predictions made in terms of load and deflection. Centor undertakes FEA in the design process to ensure the best balance of performance, cost and materials before we even commence prototyping and physical testing.
Cyclic Testing Centor’s has very tough minimum requirements of cyclic testing for any released product. Our folding door systems, for instance, must first meet a grueling 50,000 cycles without a single failure at the maximum rated configuration. We do not consider it sufficient however to test in pristine laboratory conditions - hardly those in the real world - but instead deliberately first contaminate with a mixture of plaster dust, cement and good old beach sand. Only once our hardware has survived this test can we be assured that it will provide you with years of trouble free operation.
Corrosion Testing Centor uses stainless steels, brass, anodized aluminum and engineering plastics throughout its external systems and are carefully selected to maximize performance in any environment. Centor conducts thorough corrosion testing in an ISO 9227 salt spray chamber, fixing hardware to various substrates (including various wood species and aluminium) to ensure that they perform in challenging conditions such as exposed coastal applications.
Weather Testing When we design a new system for an external window or door application, we conduct rigorous wind and water laboratory testing. There are several elements to this including spraying water under wind pressure, structural testing to cyclonic/hurricane loads and air leakage. We have successfully tested systems to;
Standards We do many other tests depending on the type of product and the environment it is likely to be used in. As an example, our ES2 Door Screen was subject to Body Impact Tests where it was repeatedly impacted by a sand-filled punching bag. These types of tests are difficult to accurately represent by computer modeling, and being a new class of product, no Product Performance Standards yet exist. Centor not only has representatives on Industry Bodies which work on these Performance Standards but is instrumental in having Committees raised so that new Standards can be written. |
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