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