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Tensile Testing Environmental Chamber – Structural
Environmental chambers for tensile testing machines are used to study how a multitude of materials behave in extreme temperatures. These chambers provide the necessary information to innovate cutting edge technology for materials in fields such as aerospace. These chambers are often heavy and expensive requiring a significant amount of time and money just in the installation process alone. This report will serve to outline and define the design and fabrication of an environmental chamber, conducted by a team of four senior mechanical engineering students at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The goals of the project include a low-weight product, accurate and precise temperature changes within the chamber, visibility of the testing area, and ease of installation of the product on the tensile testing machine. This document provides an in-depth definition of the problem and a description of the background research conducted and presents the team’s initial design ideas as well as the concep