Facilities

Structural Materials Lab

The Structural Materials Lab is equipped with traditional metallography sample and surface preparation equipment and instruments specially designed to measure the mechanical response of milli- to centimeter-sized specimens over a range of strain rates and loading conditions. High-resolution optics and post-processing digital image correlation software are available for in situ strain measurements during mechanical deformation.

Automated
Polishing Wheel

Vibratory Polisher

Optical Microscopes

Chemical Fume Hood

ADMET Uniaxial Load Frame

Digital Image Correlation

High-Temperature Lab

The High-Temperature Lab is equipped with specialized high-temperature equipment, including an environmental tube furnace, a thermocouple welding station, and a dual-color pyrometer. It also houses a highly customized Gleeble 563 Thermal Mechanical Simulator, used to measure the mechanical response of milli- to centimeter-sized specimens under isothermal or thermal shock conditions for a range of temperatures, strain rates, loading conditions, and environments. This high-temperature load frame is also compatible with the high-resolution optics in the Structural Materials Lab for integrated digital image correlation during mechanical deformation.