MECHANICAL TESTING
- 25 ton servo-hydraulic MTS machine
- 15 ton Instron screw-driven machine machine
- 0.7/1 ton tension-torsion electric Instron E10k (up to 100 Hz)
- 6 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: 15-5 PH steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 12.5 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: C250 maraging steel, tungsten heavy alloy, 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 19 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: C300 maraging steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 12.5 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) tension bars: 15-5 PH steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 50 mm helium/air gun for small projectiles and perforation studies. Maximum velocity 800 m/s
HIGH SPEED IMAGING
- Kirana ultra-high speed camera (up to 8 Mfps, 180 images, 900×800 pixel)
- Photron Fastcam SA3 (x3, up to 60k fps)
- Photron Fastcam Mini AX (up to 900k fps)
- 2 strobe lights (Specialized Imaging)
- Long working distance microscope (Infinity)
MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
- Standard mounting, cutting and polishing materialographic equipment, with a small chemical hood
- Nikkon upright light microscope
- Diamond wafering system
- Ultrasonic equipment (pulser and probes)
- Liquid nitrogen cooled 8 channel MCT infrared detector (Infrared Associates).
- Liquid nitrogen cooled 1 channel MCT/InSb infrared detector (Infrared Associates).
- Home-made double Schwartzchild 1:1 optical system
- Quanta environmental scanning electron microscope with gold coating evaporator.
DATA ACQUISITION
- Nicolet oscilloscope, 12 bit-4 channels (of which 2 differential)
- National instruments data sampling system (16 channels -14 bit)
NUMERICAL CODES
- Ansys, Abaqus, Matlab, Maple
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