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ASTM B117 duration - real time correlation
Q. Good morning I write to you from Italy as I work for a research & development laboratory and I would like to know the correlation between the duration of an ASTM B117 test and the real life of our products(range hoods). Than you very much.
Juri tessini
- italia
2002
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A. Juri - There is no direct correlation between hours in salt spray and real life. The salt spray test is best used as a process control tool. B117 is very specific about this several times throughout the document.
Cindy
Cynthia L. Meade
- Sylvania, Ohio, USA
A. Hi Juri,
The short answer to your question is that there is no correlation between results from a salt spray test and real-world performance of your product.
Other accelerated tests have been proposed, but there is no consensus about whether these tests have better correlation than that provided by B-117.
George Gorecki
- Naperville, Illinois
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