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 Laboratory

• 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 

• 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.