Advanced Materials Processing

Includes facilities for metallography, optical microscopy, micro/macro hardness testing, heat treating, fatigue testing, tensile/compression testing, and elevated temperature mechanical testing.

  • MTS 810 Material Test System (250 kN/55 klb capacity)
  • Ameritherm Induction Heating System
  • Multi-axis fatigue machine
  • Torsion fatigue machine
  • Lab furnaces (3)
  • Leistritz (Polymer) extruder
  • Experimental ring rolling machine
  • Nikon Epiphot 200 metallurgical microscope
  • Unitron stereo microscope
  • Leco Spectrum 2000 polishing wheel and head
  • Rheometer