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Mechanical Testing Equipment:

  1. Instron closed-loop axial (50,000 lbs) -torsional (20,000 in-lbs) test system
  2. Three MTS hydraulic closed-loop axial test systems,20,000 lbs. capacity
  3. Two Instron constant rate of elongation axial loading systems, 20,000 lbs. capacity equipped with an environmental chamber; conventional and computer-aided load, strain, and elongation measuring equipment
  4. MTS thermo-mechanical, tube test servohydraulic frame with 1500 Hz/2000 lb superposed loading on 50,000 lb, 30 Hz, tension, compression, torsion with 1600°C clam shell furnace
  5. High Temperature Inert Environment Test Chamber /Frame capable of operating at 27 in. Hg vacuum to temperatures of 1900°C
  6. Radiant 2200°F Clam Shell section furnace for 20,000 lbs. test frame
  7. Convective 400°F box section heater for 20,000 lbs. frame
  8. 600°F environmental chamber
  9. Wilcoxon Research Model F7 Piezoelectric Vibration Generator
  10. ATS Dead Load Machine
  11. Nine creep frames

Optical Equipment

  1. Several teaching and research polariscopes
  2. Moire apparati
  3. A stress coat system
  4. A two-watt C.W. pulsed argon laser
  5. Holographic and interferometric systems
  6. Several small lasers
  7. Surface displacement measurement systems
  8. Two metallographs

X-ray and Radiographic Equipment

  1. Argonaut nuclear reactor and hot cell, subcritical assembler, reactor simulator, radio-chemical laboratories
  2. HP 43805N X-ray System Faxitron Series
  3. Phillips K140 BE portable X-ray unit
  4. Stereo radiographic film viewer

Acoustic Equipment

  1. Panametric AE preamplifiers
  2. Assorted piezoelectric devices, ceramic and polymer
  3. Panametrics AE preamplifiers; assorted piezoelectric acoustic devices
  4. AET 206 AV Stress Wave Factor Device
  5. Sperry UM 721 Reflectoscope
  6. Sperry S80 Reflectoscope (Gray Scale Feature)
  7. Matec Model 6000 RF Pulse Generator and Receiver, RF Plug-in Model 950, RF Plug-in Model 760 V
  8. Matec Attenuation Recorder Model 2407A
  9. Two-Sonic Portable Ultrasonic Flaw Detectors
  10. Panametrics Pulser Receiver. (Also see Multipurpose Equipment)

Thermal Equipment

  1. AGA Thermovision 680 infrared imaging system
  2. AGA Thermovision 780 infrared imaging system with analog and digital image processing capability
  3. SPATE 8000 thermoelastic stress analyzer
  4. DMA, DMTA, DSC, TGA, TMA

Multipurpose Equipment

  1. Datacopy Series 300/Model 522 Digital Image processing unit (interfaced with Apollo Network)
  2. Biomation 8100 Transient Recorder; HP 5326B Counter with selectable threshold;
  3. Acoustic Research power amplifier; Bell and Howell ABR610 Microfiche Reader/Printer;
  4. Tektronix DPO/TEK 31 Programmable Calculator/Tektronic 4661 Programmable Plotter; Honeywell 5600B 14 channel tape recorder
  5. Automation US 450 Laboratory Scanner; X-Y digital scanner with aximuthal digital rotation device

This page was last updated on 07/05/00.  E-mail comments to scase@vt.edu.