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