Humidity Testing

Humidity Testing

Humidity Testing is a suite of standardized environmental tests performed in testing labs to evaluate the prolonged effect of humidity on a product or material. Humidity can mitigate a product’s performance, accelerate corrosion, cause moisture diffusion issues, induce mechanical failure, and result in other detrimental effects over a product’s lifetime. These effects can be studied in a laboratory using controlled environmental chambers that simulate 100% relative humidity under constant or cyclic temperature and humidity conditions. It is routinely performed independently or as a part of accelerated aging tests on products and devices following industry standards or custom set-ups.

Humidity testing is a critical component in material selection, product design, product reliability testing, and ensuring regulatory compliance for products. It is used to determine material degradation, mechanical, optical, and sealant failures in a wide range of products from electrical components, pharmaceutical containers, plastics, metals, epoxy coatings, computers, automotive parts, etc.

Infinita Lab network testing labs provide ASTM, ISO standardized testing, and our experts offer consultation for custom testing setup suitable for a client’s specific service conditions. A specific problem focussed approach helps our clients based in the USA and other countries across the globe to achieve the best probable solution.

Video 01: Working principle of a humidity chamber