Supporting Equipment List
Software
- ANSYS multi-physics finite element program
- Solid Works 3D design
- Edge CAM mill and lathe package
- (All software is the most up-to-date version available, with current maintenance contracts in place)
Test Equipment
- Universal test machines from 10 grams full scale to 60,000 lbs
- Torque test facility to 1 million in·lb x 6in length
- Torque test facility to 200,000 in·lb x 8ft length
- Variable speed spin test with angular misalignment to 10°
- Scales from gram balance up to 5,000 lb
- Complete microscopy lab with data analysis software
- Standard composite equipment; gel timers, viscometers, etc.
Composite Manufacturing
- Pultrusion equipment with up to 20,000 lb pull force
- Filament winding up to 8ft diameter x 15ft length
- 60in width Rosenthal slitter
- 4ft x 10ft vacuum lay-up table and supporting equipment
- 38in x 38in x 5in 100 psi press-clave
- 2 – 20 ton heated hydraulic presses
- 10in x 12in x 30in sintering furnace to 2300°F
- Several ovens, up to 911 cubic feet, with accurate temperature control
- Centrifuging equipment
- Multiple Meter/Mix machines, small and large scale
Tool Room
- 6ft x 12ft FLOW water-jet with dynamic cutting head
- Hitachi_Seiki 20in x 40in Vertical Machining Center
- Ultima vertical mill with Proto-Trak control
- Okuma LC-40 Turning Center
- 26in x 234in American Pacemaker Lathe with CNC control
- 14in x 80in 600 Lathe with CNC control
- 14in x 54in American Pacemaker manual lathe
- Sharp vertical manual mill
- 6in x 12in Brown and Sharpe surface grinder
- 6in x 18in Boyar-Shultz surface grinder
- 5in x 10in sinker EDM
- HE&M horizontal band saw to 14” diameter