Composites Fabrication Laboratory

 

The Composites Fabrication Laboratory provides the following equipment for processing composite materials:

  1. Three feet by five feet autoclave system.

  2. Seventy five ton cauum hot press with eighteen inch by eighteen inch steel patens of temperatures to 800 degrees F.

  3. One hundred ton compression hot press.

  4. Fifty ton hydraulic compression hot press with sixteen inch by sixteen inch platens.

  5. Twenty five ton pneumatic compression hot press with sixteen inch by sixteen inch platens.

  6. Clean room facility for composite processing.

  7. Fume hood.

  8. Large Bally walk in freezer for material storage.

  9. K. O. Lee slicer wet saw unit.

  10. A variety of steel modls for processing composite materials.

 

Danny Reed
15 Military Building
Phone: 231-8352 - Fax: 231-4574
E-mail: dreed@vt.edu