Frontier has state-of-the-art testing facilities to conduct extensive tests such as:

• Instrumental drop tests, pull and peel tests, burst strength tests, and ballistic tests
• Temperature and temperature-humidly cycling, environmental conditioning and chemical effects
• Failure analyses to identify the component failure root cause
• Material analyses

Instruments:

• Temperature-humidity chamber for environmental conditioning
• Instrumental impact tester to determine energy absorption during impact
• Ultra low temperature freezer for specimen conditioning
• Drop tester with the capacity of 300 pounds
• Universal tensile tester with temperature chamber for measuring mechanical properties
• Servo-hydraulic tensile tester for fatigue studies
• Taber abrasion tester for wear resistance studies
• Perkin Elmer DMA-7 Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer
• High power optical microscopy with film and video camera
• Four gas circulation ovens for thermal oxidation studies