The following facilities are available at the Aerospace Structures & Materials Engineering Laboratory, within the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering department or accessible within our campus:

  • Non-destructive inspection
    • Arius 3D laser scanner
    • Acoustocam i600 digital acoustic camera
    • Access to Skyscan 1173 microCT
    • Piezoelectric SHM systems
    • High Speed 3D Digital Image Correlation (DIC) system
    • FLIR Thermography System
    • Access to Optical and scanning electron microscopy
    • X-ray Diffractometers (XRD)
  • Material characterization
    • DSC and TGA
    • Static and fatigue testing
    • Instron Dynatup 8200 drop tower
    • Ballistic High Speed Impact Gun
  • Wind and water tunnels (low speed to supersonic)
  • Ultrasonic Impact Treatment System.
  • Hot press for composite manufacturing
  • Wavesurfer 3024 multi-channel high sampling rate oscilloscope.
  • Multi-Axis CNC System
  • Wire EDM Metal Cutting System
  • Servo-hydraulic material test frames
  • Rapid prototyping facilities
  • Metal Deposition 3D Additive Manufacturing System
  • Out-of-autoclave composites manufacturing
  • Software
    • GOM Correlate Professional
    • MSC NASTRAN
    • MSC PATRAN
    • MSC ADAMS
    • MSC DIGIMAT
    • HSA Open FSI
    • MSC APEX
    • ALTAIR HYPERMESH
    • ALTAIR OPTISTRUCT
    • ALTAIR HYPERVIEW
    • ALTAIR RADIOSS
    • ISIGHT
    • MATLAB
    • ANSYS
    • CATIA
    • Simulia Abaqus