Faculty and staff within the Department of Polymer and Fiber Engineering
have the mission of serving the public and industry. We have laboratory
equipment and testing instruments that are available to undertake such
work.
The cost of such work is based on the nature of the equipment and the
personnel
needed to operate it and ranges from $100 to $300 per hour. The table
below has
a list of instruments and equipment operated under the supervision of Dr.
Roy
Broughton and Dr. Ramsis Farag.
Contract R&D and Testing Services
Department of Polymer and Fiber Engineeing, Auburn
University AL 36849
Telephone no. 334 844 4123, Fax.
205 844 4968
Contacts: Dr. Roy M. Broughton, Jr. royalb@eng.auburn.edu 334 844 5460
Dr. Ramsis Farag
rfarag@eng.auburn.edu
334 844 5450
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Equipment |
Manufacturer |
Description |
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Nonwovens Pilot Production |
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Contact:Roy
Broughton |
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Card/crosslapper |
P&S/custom |
Roller top card 40 in. |
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Randowebber |
Rando Machine |
30 in. Air lay former |
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Through air thermal bonder |
Custom made |
50 in. horizontal, 7 ft. long <200 C |
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Fiber opening line |
CMC/Ventifloc |
Gentle opening |
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Needle Punch |
Fehrer |
50 inch wide needletacker |
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Lab Scale Nonwoven Production |
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Contact: Roy Broughton |
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Card - parallel laid web |
Shirley |
10 inch wide, stationery flats |
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Sample air lay machine |
Custom made |
9x18 inch air lay handsheets |
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Heated calendar |
Perkins |
20 in. |
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Needle punch |
Hunter |
11 in. |
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Polymer Processing |
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Contact: Roy Broughton |
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Fiber melt extrusion |
MPM, Bouligny |
Melt spinning/drawing of fibers |
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Film melt extrusion |
Custom made |
6 inch wide melt film casting |
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Fiber extrusion from solution |
Custom made |
Small scale (2 – 50 cc) wet
spinning/drawing of fibers |
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Composites |
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Contact:Roy Broughton |
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Hot press laminates |
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Up to 12x12 inch panels |
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Filament wound pannels |
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Filament winding of simple shapes |
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Braid over mandrel |
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Small customer supplied mandrel |
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Polymer/fiber/fabric/film
testing |
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Contact: Ramsis Farag or Roy
Broughton |
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Physical properties |
Various |
Run most of standard physical tests on fiber or fabric |
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Impact tester |
Instron |
Falling weight - |
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Thermal conductivity |
K-Matic |
Thermal conductivity of insulating materials |
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Thermal conductivity |
Alambeta |
Thermal properties of thin fabrics |
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Fiber/polymer analysis |
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Qualitative and quantitative analysisof fiber/polymer blends |
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Film permeability |
CSI, Lysse, Custom |
Liquid or vapor permeability of common permeants |
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HVI/AFIS |
Uster |
Properties of cotton fiber |
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Microscopy |
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Light, Polarized light |
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Other instruments and
equip. |
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Contact: Roy Broughton or Ramsis Farag |
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FTIR |
PE and Nicolet |
Infra-red spectra |
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DSC |
TA |
Thermal analysis of materials |
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Braided cable |
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Load bearing w/ electrical and
fiber optic signals |