Facilities

• Servo-hydraulic machines (vertical and horizontal, up to 110,000 pound capacity) for fatigue and fracture toughness studies
  
  
• Constant extension rate/rising step load machines (up 60,000 pound capacity) for smooth and fracture mechanics specimens
  
  
• Universal test machine (60,000 pound capacity)
  
  
• Constant displacement amplitude fatigue machines (2,000 pound capacity)
  
  
• Most of this equipment can be used with vacuum, high temperature (1200°C), or flowing natural seawater (Key West FL)
  
  
• High-speed infrared camera for differential thermographic stress analysis
  
  
• Customized, computerized data acquisition and control of all experimental apparatus
  
  
• Access to and proficiency with advanced electron microscopy, diffraction, and surface analysis instruments as well as 3-D interferometry