Facilities >> Labs

Materials and Devices Lab (iMEMS-1)

 Materials and device lab is used for various material synthesis, characterization and sensor and other electronic material integration, packaging, stability and durability analysis.

Material synthesis facility used for basic research and coupon sample preparation before the processes are scaled to engineering design.

This facility also includes a state of the art characterization facility for nano and biomaterials and various in situ studies with elaborate instrumented set-up.

Spectroscopy and microscopy facility includes elaborate arrangement for diagnostic analysis using nano-bio material assay.

This lab includes a small clean room for biomaterial handling and microscopy for in-vitro studies of scaffold and lab-on-chip systems.

Theory and Computational Lab (iMEMS-2)

This lab accommodates those working on theoretical and computational subjects and it hosts mainly desktop computing facility.

Advanced Characterization & System Integration Lab (iMEMS-3)

This lab hosts a large clean room, which is currently housing a PLD system and field emission test facility. New instruments are getting added in this lab for advanced imaging and characterization.

Students Design Center (iMEMS-4)

This design center houses a state of the art sitting area for lab members working on various design problems, computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided engineering (CAE) engineering and embedded system integration. The facility is well equipped to handle complex design project reviews.

This lab also houses a manufacturing facility consisting of CNC machines, laser cutting machines besides testing facility for flexible/compliant robotics, morphing structure and actuator testing.

Computational Science Lab

This is a data center which houses various computer clusters, servers and lab members working on computationally intensive problems.

Structural Health Monitoring Systems Lab

The SHM lab hosts state of the art facilities including a 3D laser Doppler Vibrometer and other instruments for structural health monitoring system design, analysis, and various hardware, software, sensor and actuator integration and system level deployment studies.

Material Testing Facility

Material testing facility is located in the NDT lab. This facility houses several mechanical testing machine to study deformation, fracture and fatigue at room temperature and elevated temperature. This facility is extensively used across various research groups in the Aerospace Engineering Department

The gas jet erosion tester is used to impinge test samples with controlled flux of erodent. The test system is versatile and allow users to control impingement angle, impingement velocity, erodent flux and temperature.

This facility houses a large autoclave to make fabric based composite structural components and hot press.

The facility also includes a test-bed for sensor data gathering from large structural components undergoing progressive damage. The data generated from the test-bed can be used in structural system identification, finite element model verification and validation.

The facility also houses a various arrangement for fabric lay-up and vacuum assisted curing of epoxy resin based thermo-set composite structural components. This facility is used by research groups across the Aerospace Engineering Department.