Facilities
Advanced Structures and Materials
Most composite equipment is found at the Composites Manufacturing Technology Center (operated jointly with the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics).
- High temperature bi-axial tension/torsion testing facility
- Fiberoptic interferometer
- Ultrasonic inspection system
- Elastomeric characteristic test facility
- Autoclave (3 foot diameter x 7 foot length)
- Computer-controlled filament winding machine
- Pultrusion machine
- Braiding machine for composite materials manufacturing
- Current Research
Autoclave (3' dia) (200K)
Elastomeric characteristic test facility (61K)
Structures machinist shop (295K)
Filament winding machine (73k)