Facilities >> Equipment

Structural System and Material Testing Equipments

Ultrasonic NDE inspection equipment, transducers and phased array
Eddy current based NDE inspection equipment
3D Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer
NI PXI Data Acquisition and Controller Systems, Real-Time and FPGA electronic hardware
Ultrasonic exciter and sensor instrumentation facility
Laser interferometer based displacement sensors, laser based temperature sensors
Thermal imager
Vibration shaker and modal analysis system
Wireless platform based health monitoring research facility
High power ultrasonic horn with programmable interface
High-force DMA-TMA Equipment
Servo-hydraulic UTM, fatigue testing machine
Instrumented test-bed for performance and fatigue life studies of smart materials, shape memory alloy actuators, piezoelectric stack actuators, load cells, extensometer, strain gauges
Low-velocity mechanical impact test set-up.
High bandwidth, high power pulser-receiver system for ultrasonic inspection.
High bandwidth low noise pre-amplifiers.

Materials Synthesis & Characterization Equipments

3D Printer
Electro-polishing system
80 KV electrical discharge set-up
Thermal chambers for material processing
Vacuum chamber facility for gas sensing and field emission characterization
Electromagnet with Hall probe
Programmable Spin coater
Programmable Deep coater
Electrical poling unit for piezoelectric sensor and actuator fabrication
Electrical probe station
CW diode lasers
CVD & Sputtering equipments, Glove box, fume hood
Pulsed laser deposition system
Centrifuge
Ultrasonication systems
pH analyzer, weighing balance with gravitometric measurement system
Hydraulic mounting press, Elevated temperature hot press for film drawing
Autoclave, VARTM set-up for thermo-set polymer composite fabrication
CNC milling machine, CNC bench-top system for large area operation
Laser cutting/engraving equipment 3D Printer

Nano-Engineering and Bio-Engineering Research Facility

Nano-second Pulsed Laser
100x inverted optical microscope with fluorescence microscopy facility
UV-VIS spectrophotometer
HPLC
qPCR
Sequencing and Diagnostic Assays
Laminar flow, safety hoods
Deep freezers
Co2 Incubator
Cold centrifuge
Facility for bio-material processing and cell-line development to study biomaterial mechanics
Facilities for micro-fluidic lab-on-chip design and testing
Fiber-coupled Fourier Transform InfraRed Spectrometer for capturing infrared spectrum of absorption, emission and photoconductivity of a bio sample.
Fiber-coupled Raman Spectrometer that gives details on molecular vibrations for sample identification.
Fiber-coupled UV-Vis Spectrophotometer for absorption spectroscopy in bio sample.