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.

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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.

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USU Collaborators

• USU Microscopy Core Facility
• Nuclear Engineering Research Center (NERC)
• Multiscale Thermophysics Lab (Prof. Heng Ban)
• Multiscale Mechanics of Materials Lab (Prof. Ling Liu)
• nanoscale Thermal Energy Lab (Prof. Nick Roberts)
  
• SPLASH Lab (Prof. Tadd Truscott)
  
• Composites Lab (Prof. Thomas Fronk)
  
• Rocket Propulsion Lab (Prof. Tony Whitmore)

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