Facilities
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Shake Table II
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Polytec Scanning Laser Vibrometer
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Truss Structure for Lab Testing
Experiment Facilities
- Polytec Scanning Laser VIbrometer
- PZT Sensors and Actuators
- Dytran Accelerometer 3030B4-4EA and 1 Power/Signal Conditioning Unit
- PM1633 Embedded CPU Modules for Sensors
- Projector for Lab Meeting Purpose
- Video Camera for Recording Training and Research
- Panasonic BL-C1A Wired Network IP Camera
- NI PXI-4072B Dynamic Signal Analyzers
- Dytran Accelerometers 3093B1-8EA
- Vacuum Bagging Equipment for Manufacturing Composite Materials
- Lion Eddy Current Probe and Driver
- A NI USB DAQ 16 AI Channels
- FOX embedded board LX832 and NETUS G20 A Complete Linux System
- A LDS Electro-dynamic Shaker V408 and an Amplifier
- Aluminum Load Frame for Dynamic Testing
- Force Transducer PCB 208C02
- Quanser Shake Table II and a three-story building structure
- NI PXI/SCXI data acquisition system configured with high performance controller (PXI-8105), two PXI-4472B modules, a PXI-6259 multifunction I/O M series and various signal conditioning modules (SCXI-1540, SCXI-1520) for strain gages, LVDT and general voltage input
- Wireless smart sensors: Two Imote2. Builder Kits, Two Classroom Kits and Imote2, MICA2, MicaZ sensors and programming/interface boards
- APS Dynamics Electro-Seis Shaker, Wilcoxon seismic sensors, Extech dual tracking DC power supply and Briggs and Stratton power generator
- 2 Triaxial capacitive accelerometers, 4 high sensitive accelerometers, 6 ICP microphones and power supplies, etc.
Computing Facilities and Software
- High Performance Computer for Research: 24 Core CPUs, 64GB RAM, RedHat 5.5 Linux OS
- 6 Desktop PCs and 1 Laptop for DAQ
- Commercial Software: ABAQUS, ANSYS, ME’Scope, MS Visual Studio, Intel Visual Fortran
- In-House Research Codes:
- UMAT Code for J2 Plasticity Material Model (Combined Hardening Model)
- A SelfSim Simulator (MATLAB + ABAQUS with UMAT)
- A Self-OPTIM Simulator (MATLAB + ABAQUS with UMAT)
- Fortran Codes for NANN (Nested Adaptive Artificial Neural Network) Neural Network Material Model
- ABAQUS UMAT ANN Material Model
- Codes of Steady State Genetic Algorithm-MGA for Optimization
- FE Codes for higher-order laminated composite plates
- A UMAT model for analysis of planar 2D reinforced concrete structures
- FE Codes for 3D fully nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of beam and cable structure