Lab facilities

Electromechanical testing machines by Messphysik Materials (one mu-Strain, one Midi 10 and one Beta 100) and by ELE International Ltd (three ELE Tritest 50)

Stereoscopic microscope Nikon SMZ-800 equipped with Objectives (P-Plan Apo 0.5X and P-ED Plan 1.5X by Nikon), DS-Ri2 camera, motorized stage with Tango3 PCI‐e controller, Extended Depth of Focus module, and Software NIS-Elements Basic Research

AMV120LB (by Damo s.r.l.) equipped with ABB (ABB Sace S.p.A.) AC servo motor (model BSM0400CN00) and controlled with ABB servo drive (model BSD0400)

ElectroForce Linearmotor 3300 Series II by Bose (Frequency range 1-100 Hz, Rated peak force SINE/RANDOM 3000N, Max rated travel 25 mm)

Vibration Test System TIRA vib 51144 (Frequency range 2-6500 Hz, Rated peak force SINE/RANDOM 440N, Max rated travel 25.4mm) equipped with Power Amplifier TIRA BAA 1000 (Frequency range 2-20000 Hz)

1-axis system equipped with a Vibration Test System TIRA vib 51144

DIC (Digital Image Correlation) system for quasi-static, dynamic, and micro-scale experiments by Correlated Solutions. Quasi-static setup: 4 synchronized 24.4 MP cameras (5320 x 4680 px @ 100 fps). Dynamic setup: 2 Photon Fastcam NOVA S9 cameras (1024 x 1024 px @ 9000 fps). Micro setup: 3D-Micro-DIC with 2 Blue-Falcon cameras (5 MP @ 65.4 Hz, 8.1 MP @ 51 Hz) and 2:1 magnification. Powered by VIC-3D software.

Polytec PSV QTec® B, Front end PSV-F-600 High Resolution version, software PSV-S-BW100K.

Linear/circular transmission polariscope equipped with a white and sodium vapor lightbox purchased from Tiedemann & Betz, Soleil-Babinet compensator (400-1000nm) of Thorlabs, model SBC-VIS

Olympus PANAMETRICS-NDT square wave pulser/receiver 5077PR and PANAMETRICS-NDT EPOCH 4B Ultrasonic flow detector equipped with Olympus Contact Transducers for Longitudinal waves (NDT 5MHZ/1.0", NDT 1MHZ/1.0", NDT 0.5MHZ/1.5", NDT 100kHZ/1.5", NDT 50kHZ/1.5") and Normal Incidence Shear Waves (1MHz/1.00", 0.5MHz/1.00", 100kHz/1.00")

Stratasys J750 3D printer (build size 490 x 390 x 200 mm, precision 14-micron resolution) and Stratasys Origin One (build size 192 x 108 x 370 mm, 4K light engine resolution)

Roland EGX-600 (3-axis), Roland MDX-540 (4-axis), and DMG MORI CU50X (5-axis)

BIL-13090 150W CO2 Laser cutter (build size 1300 mm x 900 mm, precision +/-0.1 mm), wave length 10.64 um

Sony PXW-FS5 and Sony PXW-FS7, Phantom V2640 (2048 x 1952 resolution @ 4855fps)

Sony Alpha9, Sony Alpha6300

ABAQUS, Comsol Multiphysics

Mathematica, Matlab

LabVIEW (National Instruments cDAQs, cRIOs acquisition systems for Real time and FPGA controls), Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, Affinity Suite

Vibration research VR9500 (4 input channels), VR9100 SineVIEW, VR9601 Digital Remote I/O, VR9607 Analyzer Function