ACF
Impact site preparation for a test at the Aerial Cable Facility
Drop Tower
Drop Tower Facility at sunset
Thermal Test Complex
A Radiant Heat test conducted at the Thermal Test Complex
Mechanical Shock
Preparing for a linear actuator test at the Mechanical Shock Facility
Burn Site
Open burn at the Lurance Canyon Burn Site
Centrifuge
View of indoor 29 ft Centrifuge with a test unit mounted
Blast Tube
Blast Tube facility readiness operations
VQSEC Overview
The Validation and Qualification Sciences Experimental Complex (VQSEC) at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico is a unique group of experimental and computational capabilities that create and/or simulate a broad range of extreme operational or abnormal environments.
Large-Scale Testing
Our talented staff have been delivering 50 years of test system design and execution by providing integration of precision tools to evaluate response at any scale, for a breadth of extreme thermal and mechanical environments.
Fire Computational Analysis
Model simulation and test integration are essential because computational analyses provide partial physics that are fully exposed, while testing provides full physics that are partially exposed.