Laboratory & Instrumentation

There are two offices and four different work stations for data acquisitions and advanced numerical simulations for this laboratory. Lab members also have access to multi-user centers of UW-Madison such as the Materials Science Center (MSC) and the Plant Imaging Center (PIC), as well as other research groups’ laboratories such as Professor Frank Pfefferkorn's Laser-Assisted Multi-Scale Manufacturing Lab (LAMSML). The instruments listed below represent some of the newest, most advanced, and most frequently used instrumentation that our group has access too.  Multiscale Materials Characterization  Hysitron TI 950 TriboIndenter Nano-tribometer (NTR2, CSM Instruments) Atomic force microscope (Q-Scope250, Quesant) FEI / Quanta, Environmental Scanning Electron Micr FEI / Quanta, Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (PIC)  LEO / 1530 FESEM-EDS-EBSD, Scanning Electron Microscope (MSC)  Bruker / Catalyst AFM (BioAFM), Atomic Force Microscope (MSC)  Alicona / InfiniteFocus Real3D, Optical 3D Micro Coordinate Measurement System (LAMSML)  Taylor Hobson / Surtronic 25, Portable Roughness Tester (LAMSML) Nonlinear Vibrations and Acoustics Laboratory  Multipoint Vibrometer (MPV-800, Polytec) Scanning Laser Vibrometer (PSV-400 , Polytec) used with Polytec Software and an Alta Solutions AS-1220 Automated Impact Hammer Mistras Group’s Peripheral Component Interconnect bus Acoustic Emission’s system PCI-2 2 Channel AE System on a Card, Collection of shakers, strain gages, accelerometers, manual impact hammers, piezo actuators and sensors.