Mechanical testing
- Fluid loaded membrane bulging apparatus for both quasi-static and dynamic loading.
- 25 ton servo-hydraulic MTS machine (Labview interfaced).
- 15 ton Instron screw-driven machine machine (Labview interfaced).
- 1 ton servo-hydraulic Instron machine (Labview interfaced).
- 6 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: 15-5 PH steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 12.5 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: C300 Maraging steel, tungsten heavy alloy, 7075-T6 aluminum alloy + furnace.
- 19 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) compression bars: C300 maraging steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 12.5 mm split Hopkinson (Kolsky) tension bars: 15-5 PH steel, C300 Maraging steel and 7075-T6 aluminum alloy
- 50 mm helium/air gun for small projectiles and perforation studies. Maximum velocity 350 m/s.
- 10 mm hail gun simulator.
High speed imaging
- Kirana camera. 8 million frames/second, 180 images (924×768).
- Cordin 530 camera with electric drive. 200.000 frames/second, 16 frames(1000×1000).
- 4 strobe lights (Specialised Imaging).
- Long working distance microscope (Infinity).
Materials Characterization
- Standard mounting, cutting and polishing materialographic equipment, with a small chemical hood.
- Nikon upright light microscope.
- Struers Acutom 5 wafering diamond saw.
- Struers Minitom, low speed wafering diamond saw.
- Ultrasonic equipment (Lecoeur Electronique).
- Ultrasonic pulser (Olympus)
- Liquid nitrogen cooled 8 channel MCT infrared detector (Fermionics) . Home-made Schwartzchild 1:1 optical system.
- Phillips XL90 scanning electron microscope with gold coating evaporator. Energy dispersive X-ray analysis system.
Data Acquisition
- 2 Nicolet oscilloscope, 12 bit-4 channels.
- National instruments data sampling system (16 channels -14 bit).
Numerical codes
- Ansys, Abaqus, Matlab, Maple.