Facilities and Equipment
- Laboratory induction melting unit and stir mixing equipment with resistance furnaces
- Instron and MTS mechanical testing machine
- Hardness tester, Charpy impact testing machine
- Submerged arc welding equipment
- Laboratory scale rolling mill
- Optical microscopes with image analysis capability (state-of-the-art Clemex Image Analysis System)
- Scanning electron microscopes
- STEM (In Physics Department)
- Fatigue testing machines
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and other surface analytical equipmen including AUger, SIMS
- Structures Laboratory- over 10,000 square feet of testing area with a load-resisting capacity of 100,000 pounds at every three feet in two directions. The laboratory is equipped with several testing machines with latest mechanical and electronic control systems, data acquisition systems, electronic support equipment, support technicians, and other related support facilities. It is also equipped with Magnetic Field Disturbance (MFD) Instrumentation, Impact Echo System, and other measurement devices.
- Pressure infiltration and squeeze casting equipment for metal matrix composites
- Sintering furnace
- Press for powder pressing
- Attritor milling equipment
- Meltlab
- Melt spinning equipment
- Ultrasonic generator (Branson)
- Ultrasonic velocity measurement equipment
- Density measurement
- High-spped and high resolution data acquisition system