EXPERIMENTAL FACILTIES

• High-speed imaging facility (rotating mirror type and ultrahigh-speed digital cameras)
• Dual actuator synchronous electro-mechanical fatigue apparatus.
• High-speed transient data acquisition (multichannel DAQ; 2.5 million samples/sec)
• Laser-based interferometers (visible light and infrared)
• Spectra-Physics High power Argon-ion pulse-laser
• Instron universal testing machine
• High-velocity gas gun and Dynatup 9250-HV drop tower
• Material preparation facility (polymeric functionally graded materials, syntactic foams, interpenetrating phase composites and nanocomposites, interpenetrating polymer networks)
• Ultrasonic pulse-echo measurements

PHOTOGRAPHS AND MULTIMEDIA DEMOS

Laboratory for Failure Characterization & Optical Techniques
Optical Interferograms
Multiphase composite foam
Mode-I dynamic crack growth simulations in FGM - Finite element simulations using cohesive elements - Movie
Mixed-mode dynamic crack growth in FGM - Finite element simulations using cohesive elements - Movie

HIGH-SPEED IMAGING FACILITY

B/W Photo
Color Photo
Digital Camera
Drop Tower Facility
Dynamic Crack Growth - Movie
Mixed-Mode Dynamic Crack Growth in FGM - Movie
Dynamic Crack Growth in Fiber Reinforced Composite - Movie
High-speed photography of white light speckles - movie

Sandwich Structure Impact Movie-IPC-30

Sandwich Structure Impact Moview-SFSb-30

Sandwich structure Impact Movie-IPC-30-Phantom

Sandwich Structure Impact Movie-SFSb-30-Phantom