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Composites Laboratory

Location:192-135

Light weight materials are becoming more and more prevalent in automotive applications and other transportation fields as we continue to increase efficiency. Our composites lab gives students first hand experience in designing, building, and testing composite parts.

Equipment:

Servo-hydraulic tester, small autoclave, torsion tester.

Description of Equipment/Lab:

• Lab projects involve fabricating and testing composite specimens, and designing, fabricating, and verification testing of simple structures.
• Most data is acquired by a PC-based data acquisition system.

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