CMSL Facilities
The Composite Materials and Structures Laboratory has state-of-art facilities in composites processing and manufacturing, mechanical and material testing, material and chemical characterization, modeling and analysis. The specific research capabilities include:
Processing and Manufacturing
- ASC Autoclave (24"x48", 200psi@800F)
- Resin Transfer Molding (RTM)
- Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding (VARTM)
- UCF Continuous Carbon Nanopaper Making Machine (developed by UCF under NSF grant - 0757302)
- Misonix Sonicator
- Brookfield Viscometer
- Mechnical Mixers
- Vacuum Oven
- High Temperature Convection Oven
- Data Acquisition System
Mechanical and Material Testing
- Ultrasound - C Scan
- Universal Testing Machine - Instron
- Impact Tester
- Fire Testing Technology - Infrared Heater
Material and Chemical Characterization
- Optical Microscopy
- Scanning Electron Microcope
- Specimen Cutting Machine
- Specimen Polishing Machine
- Thermal Analysis: TGA, DMA, DSC
Modeling and Analysis
- RTM and VARTM Process Modeling and Simulation
- Composite Structural Analysis (NASTRAN, PATRAN)
- Impact Analysis of Composite Structures (LS-DYNA)
- Large-Scale Molecular dynamics simulation (Materials Studio @STOKES, IBM High Performance Computing Cluster)
- Large-Scale Dissipative particle dynamics simulation (Materials Studio @STOKES, IBM High Performance Computing Cluster)
- Workstations and High Performance PCs