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Facilities and Equipment

Facilities and Equipment
  • Composite manufacturing unit (working table, vacuum oven, curing, etc.)
  • Tabletop Mark-10 Mechanical testing unit (2.2 kN), Instron Tensile Testing Instrument (5kN), 
  • Shimadzu (100 kN) Fatigue testing platform with an environmental chamber and capacities of testing at temperature range -70 up to 400°C,
  • Magneto-mechanical testing unit
  • Direct Ink Writing 3D printer (model: FNIS 23151 Version B) for 3D printing of soft polymers such as MREs, SMPs, etc.
  • An ultra-high-speed video camera capable of capturing 800,000 frames/second (to study progressive crack propagation under different loading rates),
  • Several 3D printers (Funmat-HT, Dremel, etc.)
  • Ovens and mixers
  • Grizzly Vertical Band Saw
  • Powerful computers capable of performing both CPU and GPU analysis
  • Access to: Autoclave: 3ft*5ft (350 F, 150 psi)
  • Access to: Curing oven: 6ft*6ft*6ft
  • Access to A Digital Image Correlation (DIC) setup
  • Access to dynamic drop testing setup
  • Access to Keyence E1000 digital optical microscope with 10x to 1000x magnification lenses and motorized stage height,
  • Access to High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility