NSF ExLENT Facilities


Dolphicam2 Ultrasound Scanner 

Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) for heterogenous materials (e.g., fiber-reinforced polymer composites, electronic chips, 3D-printed materials) under external loadings (e.g., impact, tension/compression, bending, thermal cycling, etc.)


Stratasys J35™ Pro 3D Printer

  • Multi-material polymer 3D printing based on material jetting. 
  • Has a unique capability to print samples made of soft and stiff materials with arbitray architected structural patterns.

MTS Landmark Servo Hydraulic Test System

  • 5kN to 500 kN force range
  • Crack Propagation
  • Thermal Mechanical Fatigue
  • Equipped with an environmental chamber

Machine Vision Cameras (Digital Image Correlation)

  • 2 x Blackfly S USB3 cameras, Model: BFS-U3-19S4C-C: 1.9 MP, 131 FPS
  • 1 x Firefly DL camera, Model: Model: FFY-U3-16S2C-C-DL: 1.6 MP, 60 FPS

Drop Tower

  • 8 ft height
  • High-speed imaging and DIC
  • Heavy duty up to 300 J impact energy
  • High-speed DAQ

Thermal Camera 

  • FLIR A6781 MWIR camera
  • Real-time temperature field streaming
  • -20°C to 350°C 
  • 50mm lens, 3.0-5.0µm, f/2.5 (4215500)

Acoustic Emission System

  • Vallen AMSY6 AE system
  • 4-channel AE sensing
  • AE sensor, 100-900 kHz, ceramic face
  • Real-time AE data streaming