ResearchFacilities

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