NTS offers CAD/FEA Modeling for Direct and Indirect Effects Lightning, Reducing Test Costs and Time
May 24, 2016The NTS Lightning Technologies laboratory in Pittsfield, MA is now offering finite element analysis, allowing the performance of complex simulations that accurately model the interaction of lightning with a variety of aircraft and avionics components for our customers. This service...
Solar Radiation Testing in Accordance with Method 505 of MIL-STD-810
May 17, 2016Solar radiation (sunshine) testing is one of the basic tests required for any military equipment planned to be deployed in the open and therefore subject to direct radiation from the solar source. The effects of this radiant energy can...
How can I relate the results of MIL-STD-810 salt fog testing to the life time of my product?
April 20, 2016This is a very common question that we get asked quite often and unfortunately there is no correlation between what the product sees in the salt fog chamber to what it will experience out in the field. In order to...
Is there a preferred sequence for EMI, EMC Tests?
April 5, 2016One of the questions we get asked often is about order of EMI/EMC testing. Neither MIL-STD-461 nor RTCA/DO-160 specify the order of test performance. Leaving aside the issue of Safety of Flight tests for aircraft (which typically must be performed...
MIL-STD-461G Released
February 3, 2016The G revision of the MIL-STD-461 standard was released in December 2015 and is available here. NTS’s Jeffrey Viel’s wrote an article for InCompliance Magazine reviewing the proposed changes which was published back in August 2015. These changes have carried...
NTS Huntsville: Recent Accreditations and On-Site Calibration
May 14, 2015NTS Huntsville, AL was officially accredited as an USCG accepted independent laboratory for testing of materials and equipment. We can now assist manufacturers of commercial and recreational safety equipment and material with USCG Type Approval for the following fourteen series...
NTS Huntsville Assists in Successful Snubber Replacement at Farley Plant
November 21, 2014On Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 NTS Huntsville assisted in the successful replacement of two snubbers at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant in Alabama. The outage on Unit 2 for refueling and maintenance began on October 15th and began generating...