Structural Testing & Materials & Manufacturing Operations Labs
The Structural Testing and Materials and Manufacturing Operations Laboratory consists of three dedicated areas - over 2200 square feet. They contain current industrial and educational machines to support engineering education and research. Equipment includes:
- MTS universal servohydraulic computer-controlled testing machine with 22 Kip load frame; for testing material properties and work- related fatigue of materials and products.
- Tinius Olsen Tensile Test machine with 60,000 lb. capacity; with x, y output for tensile and compressive tests.
- Monsanto Tensometer bench top tensile test machine with extensometer and heating capacity.
- Vega Enterprise tensile test machine - manual, 20000 lbs.
- Fatigue Dynamics rotating beam fatigue test machine.
- Fatigue Dynamics reciprocating fatigue test machine.
- Charpy impact test machine.
- Lindberg ovens (3) for heat treating.
- Wison Brinell hardness tester.
- Wilson Rockwell hardness tester.
- Alpha Duromatic Rockwell hardness tester.
- Leco Microhardness tester.
- Surface finish machines for metallurgical sample preparation:
- 1 Leco, 2 Buehler — rotary types
- 1 Buehler — belt type
- Bridge model for deflection measurement and calculations
- Buehler abrasive cutter for sample preparation.
- Buehler sample mounting machine.
- Microscopes (7) for material inspection.
- Buehler image analyzer for enhanced material inspection.
- Micro measurement Strain Smart 5100.
- Amatrol 11600 Structural System.
