The invention concerns a device for exposing samples to photonic radiation for
accelerated artificial weathering tests, comprising: chamber (30), a sample-holding
cage (40) rotating about a horizontal axis (H—H), at least an electromagnetic
radiation lamp (10) in the central part of the cage (45, 46). One
improvement consists in ventilating means blowing air into the chamber (30)
through the air intake orifice (50), so as to generate an air stream arriving
directly on the lamp (10), then diverging about the lamp (10) to
be evacuated through the fixed air outlets (31-38) at the periphery of the
cage (40). Another improvement consists in the fact that the lower part
of the rotary sample-holding cage is immersed in a liquid tank, such that the samples
are cyclically in immersion phases into the liquid alternating with emergence phases
into the air stream. The invention also concerns test devices and methods integrating
said improvements.