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MATERIALS
AND METROLOGY LABORATORY
The Materials and
Metrology Laboratory is used by undergraduate students in a number of
laboratory classes including Materials Science and Introduction to Manufacturing.
It is also used by students in the design laboratory courses when they
need to assess properties of metal, polymer and composite materials
they are using in their designs and it is used in experiments relating
to materials or measurement of physical dimensions.
The overall purpose
of the laboratory twofold. One purpose relates directly to the assessment
of physical properties of materials and microstructure of metals and
composites. The other purpose is the precise measurement of the physical
dimensions of mechanical parts.
Equipment
used by students to assess material properties:
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Rockwell
Hardness Tester
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Charpy
Impact Tester
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100
kN Universal Testing Machine with load cell, long and short extensometers
and computer work station
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Metallurgical
cut off machine
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Metallurgical
grinder/polisher's
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Sample
mounting facilities
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Etchant
facilities
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Trinocular
bright field microscope
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Inverted,
trinocular bright field microscope
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Computer
capture video camera micograpy for microscopes
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Spectrometer
for measuring alloy composition of ferrous alloys.
Equipment used by
students to perform measurement:
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Mitutoyo
instrument sets for basic linear measure metrology including:
1, 2 and, 3 inch micrometers
2 to 8 inch internal micrometer
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Dial
calipers
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Tri
& miter square with angle head and center head
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Dial
indicators and magnetic base
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Surface
plates with and without dial height gages
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Precision
dial height gage
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Low
power microscope with video camera and computer image capture
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Graduated
reticle and stage micrometer to adapt bright field microscopes for
micro measurement.
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Software
for linear, area, perimeter etc computation on video capture
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micrographs
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Optical
comparitor with silhouette and face illumination and digital readout
Dr.
Don Goddard is the faculty member responsible for the Materials
and Metrology Laboratory.
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