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Programable Environment Chamber

Photos Include the 2 sensors needed used for testing, the UV chamber and the Environment Chamber that we set up and calibrated. On the left includes our final iteration of the programmable environmental chamber we needed to design.

Client NRC, Lucy Li
Professor(s) Bijan Borzou Jim Catton
Program Electrical Engineering technologist / Mechanical Engineering Technologist
Students Evan Hill, Yousef Nassar, Hui Wang, Brendan Plunket

Project Description:

Our client is the National Research Council Canada (NRC). Specifically, we are working with the aerospace department in the NRC. The NRC is looking to improve their ability to detect and simulate corrosion of aerospace materials. The paint currently used to paint air crafts is not eco-friendly. We will be testing various paints to see which one is the most corrosive resistant. This will save money and increase safety for the NRC and their contractors. Currently corrosion is very difficult to simulate under stress. The NRC aims to create a programable environment chamber that can be used in parallel with a hydraulic arm without damaging the arm.

Before this to better understand how to create a chamber we were tasked with setting up and calibrating a existing programmable environment chamber, a cyclic UV chamber, and 2 corrosion sensors. The 2 corrosion sensors are made by the same company and operate largely the same way, with the exception of one being wireless and the other needing constant USB connection.

Multiple tests were done on the corrosion sensors to test if they work properly. These included different salt concentrations, different temperatures, for varying lengths.

Overall it was a great experience to be apart of and a great opportunity, and many thanks go out to our client and contacts at the NRC, as well as all of our teachers over the years.


Short Description:

We were tasked to create a programmable environment chamber that can test corrosion under stress shown on the left. We were tasked before hand to work on a pre-existing environment chamber, UV chamber and 2 corrosion sensors also pictured.



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Wired Corrosion Sensor. Made by Luna Labs Wireless Corrosion Sensor. Made by Luna Labs
Cyclic UV Chamber. Capable of alternating cycles to simulate weather. Has UV to simulate the sun The final view of our design of a programmable environment chamber


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