HALT / HASS stands for Highly Accelerated Life Testing / Highly Accelerated Stress Screening. These blue steel chambers provide critical data about your product’s reliability and maturity. Expert operators conduct testing with HALT / HASS equipment at several Element locations in the U.S., providing extremely accurate simulations of real-life conditions your product or parts may endure.
Mean Time Before Failure
Element offers its clients HALT / HASS services for a variety of testing applications, including evaluation of a product’s design before it enters the production phase. It is an invaluable tool for increasing a product’s Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF). Engineers have recorded increases from 5 to 1000 times original MTBF with strategic use of HALT / HASS testing.
Shorten Time-to-Market
Element engineers and scientists have substantially reduced the research and development costs in time and labor for countless clients with HALT/HASS services. It is a proven method of shortening the time-to-market period. Our experienced staff has the training and expertise to apply the many benefits of HALT/HASS testing—as well as those of all our specialized instrumentation and equipment—to your specific product or process.
HALT and HASS capabilities
The HALT/HASS testing chamber is capable of combining high rate thermal cycling with triaxial random vibration at six degrees of freedom (6 DoF).
System Performance
- HALT/HASS Temperature Range: -100° to 200° C
- HALT/HASS Temperature Change Rate: 60° per minute
- HALT/HASS Temperature Stability: ±1° C after stabilization
- HALT/HASS Vibration Type: Repetitive shock, tri-axial noncoherent. Product experiences 6 degrees of freedom broadband random vibration.
- HALT/HASS Working Area Ranges: 30-48” x 40-48” x 36-48” high
- HALT/HASS Maximum Vibration Power: 60 grms
- HALT/HASS Frequency Ranges: 5 to 5,000 Hz and 5 to 20,000 Hz