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Meet our students
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Advanced Manufacturing, materials & structures engineering (AMASE)
Energy & resilience
Engineered health solutions
WAVES: Wear, aeroacoustics & vibration in engineering systems
Robotics & autonomous systems
Facilities
3d printing
Acoustic & vibrations laboratory
Advanced fluid dynamics
Advanced manufacturing
Aerodynamics
Energy storage & refrigeration
Engine research
Mechanics of solids
Mechatronics
Microfluids
Precision & nano processing technologies
Solar thermal
Sustainable manufacturing & life cycle engineering
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Mechanics of solids
The Mechanics of Solids laboratory is a facility dedicated to the structural testing and design of components and materials.
There are three strands of activity:
Teaching experiments - predominantly undergraduate
Research - predominantly staff and postgraduates; and
Contract research, consulting and investigations for industry.
Our capabilities include:
Instron 3369 universal testing system with ±50 kN load capacity
Instron 8804 uniaxial servohydraulic dynamic testing system with maximum fatigue-rated capacity ±500 kN
Instron 8852 biaxial servohydraulic dynamic testing system with ±100 kN axial force capacity and ±1000 N.m torsion capacity
Instron 8872 uniaxial servohydraulic dynamic testing system with maximum fatigue-rated capacity ±25 kN
Hydraulic Mutiaxial Test Bed with 16-square-metre envelope and four 100 kN dynacells
Small scale ADMET eXpert 5951 dynamic testing system with fatigue-rated capacity ±4 kN
Instron CEAST 9350 Drop Tower high-energy and high-velocity impact test machine
3D full field strain measuring equipment (ARAMIS)
Advanced video extensometer
Environmental chamber (-150 to 250 deg C) compatible with Instron testing systems
Industrial grade autoclave for composite material manufacture
Dynamic and quasistatic strength testing of materials
Fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth testing of materials
Testing facility for composite materials
Strain gauging
Pressure testing
Finite element stress analysis
Structural design of components and capital equipment
Contact Us
For more information, contact
Professor Gangadhara Prusty