Full-Field Temperature and Strain Measurement*

  • Digital Image Correlation System, Correlated Solutions Inc.  Vic-3D-IR with Fulcrum fatigue module.
  • JAI 1.5 MP UV camera (x2), with UKA UV lenses and XNite330C UV filter
  • Point Grey 5MP camera (x2)
  • Prosilica 29MP camera (x2)
  • FLIR SC6703 thermal camera
  • FLIR A6751SC thermal camera (calibrated up to 3000C)
  • Qioptiq 7:1 Zoom lens assembly (x2)
  • Assorted other UV, IR, and visible-range lenses.
* Supported by the USDOE Nuclear Energy University Program (Infrastructure Grant # DE-NE0008378)
FLIR camera and stereo UV cameras.

Heating and Loading Equipment

  • Gleeble 1500D thermo-mechanical simulator. Features an environmental chamber for air, vacuum, or inert gas; viewing window for DIC; heating and cooling up to 10,000°C/s, up to max temp 3000°C; Static loads up to 80 kN, fatigue up to 53 kN.
  • Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (in development).
  • 10 kW induction heater, Superior Induction.
  • 240 V electric furnace, Cress.
  • Labworks LW132.151-7 vibration shaker.
  • Keyence laser vibration sensor.
  • 50 kN servo-hydraulic load frame, Tinius-Olsen.
  • Charpy impact tester.
  • Rockwell hardness tester.
Gleeble 1500D system in the Mechanics at Extreme Temperatures Lab.

USU Collaborators
FEI Quanta FEG 650 scanning electron microscope at the USU Microscopy Core Facility.