About 80% of electronic product damage is mostly caused by drop collisions. R&D personnel often spend a lot of time and cost to conduct related quality tests for products. The most common structural test is drop test.
The drop test is usually mainly used to simulate the free fall that the product may be subjected to during handling, and to investigate the ability of the product to withstand unexpected shocks. Drop test is one of the reliability tests that electronic products often do before they leave the factory. Drop tests include package drop test and bare metal drop test, so as to understand the damage of the product and evaluate the drop height and durability of the product packaging components when they fall. Impact strength, to investigate the ability of the product to resist unexpected impact.
The test conditions are the drop surface, number of drops, drop height, and drop direction.
Usually the drop height is mostly based on the weight of the product and the probability of falling as a reference standard. For different international standards, even if the product is under the same weight, the drop height is different. For handheld products (such as mobile phones, MP3, etc.), most of the drop heights are between 100cm ~ 150cm.
The drop surface should be a smooth, hard and rigid surface made of concrete or steel (if there are special requirements, it should be determined by product specifications or customer test specifications).
After passing the drop test, the product and packaging design can be better improved and perfected according to the actual situation of the product and the scope of the national standard.
