Facilities

Laboratory

Facilities include a sophisticated mechanical test capabilities (including high-vacuum environmental chambers and dynamic loading systems), optical strain analysis equipment for field and laboratory use, atomic force microscope and nano-scale test system and a unique friction stir welding process development system for manufacturing joints under controlled process conditions. A partial listing of the facilities is given below.
METALLIC PROCESSING
Two friction stir welding systems
MTS Process Development System
Supermill FSW system
MECHANICAL AND TENSILE TESTING EQUIPMENT
MTS 50Kip tension/compression loading system with TESTAR digital controls
MTS 20 kip tension/compression loading system with fatigue testing software
DYNAMIC TESTING EQUIPMENT
One single axis MTS drop weight platform
One Dynatup drop weight tower for impact testing
One air gun system for impact testing of components
One air gun system for Split Hopkinson Bar, high strain rate testing of materials
BIOMECHANICAL TEST FACILITIES
Fully equipped BOSE 3200 test system
DMA software for polymer property studies
2 tension loading configurations (50lb and 5lb)
2 torsion loading configurations (2 Nm and 20Nm)
Environmental chamber for bio-tissue studies
OPTICAL and COMPUTER VISION
One Nikon stereo microscope with small scale load frame for advanced materials testing and evaluation.
Two IMACON 200 ultra high speed cameras to acquire images at 200 million fps
Two moderate speed Phantom Cameras (20000 fps) for low speed impact event measurements.
Software to convert images into accurate 3D deformation maps for specimens

Animal

Use of animals in research is performed by my medical school colleagues. The animals used are rats and mice.

Clinical

Not at this point.

Other

MECHANICAL TEST EQUIPMENT
Instron 50 kip tension/compression loading system with fatigue testing software
Instron 20 kip tension/compression system-vacuum & moderate temperature chambers
One 100Kip Tinius Olsen Screw Driven test system with Dage MTI digital control system
HIGH TEMPERATURE TEST FACILTIES
Three 1200oC test chambers for high temperature testing
Twelve 200oC creep chambers for moderate temperature testing of polymers
DYNAMIC TEST FACILITIES
One single axis MTS vibration system
One instrumented Charpy Impact Testing System

SOUTHEASTERN MICROSCOPY CENTER EQUIPMENT
Three Scanning Electron Microscopes
1 Transmission Electron Microscope
1 High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope
1 Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope
Wide range of optical microscopes

Major Equipment

• (Shared) 2-IMACON 200 Digital Ultra high speed cameras (200million FPS)
• (Shared) BOSE 320 Biomechanical Test System for Soft and Hard Tissue