Research Facilities and Instrumentation - The University of Alabama Research Facilities and Instrumentation (Download)3. D Printing Laboratory. Location of Facility: 1. Hardaway Hall. Director Name: Dr. Andrew Graettinger. Director Email: andrewg@eng. Website: Lab Email: 3d@ua. Lab Camera: 1. 30. Key Staff: Doug Cannon - (2. Description: The 3. D Printing Laboratory at The University of Alabama is open to all students, faculty, and staff who have 3. D printing needs related to university activities. The laboratory supports campus users in the areas of solid modeling, scanning of objects, and printing of parts. The laboratory is equipped with, and supports, software packages including: Auto. CAD, Solid. Works, and many freeware modeling packages. Lab also has an Artec handheld scanner and access to a desktop Maker. Bot Digitizer as well as a Leica Scan.
Station to capture building scale objects. The primary mission of the 3. D Printing Laboratory is to turn digital solid models into physical parts. Extraction and Assays of ADP-glucose Pyrophosphorylase, Soluble Starch Synthase and Granule Bound Starch Synthase from Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Grains. The lab currently has six printers including a Stratasys Dimension 1.Objet 3. 0 Pro, a 3.D Systems 4. 60 plus and a Spectrum 5. Canon Raw To Jpg Software . Maker. Bot Replicator. Bits from Bytes 3. D touch. The 3. D Printing Laboratory is staffed by student workers during normal business hours. Return to top. Advanced Composite Materials Laboratory. Location of Facility: Director Name: Dr. Samit Roy. Director Email: sroy@eng. Description: Includes facilities for manufacturing, characterization and modeling of advanced composites and nanostructured materials. Compression molding hot press, filament winder, pultrusion equipment, single and twin- screw extruders, and resin infusion vacuum pumps are available for manufacturing thermoset, thermoplastic and nanocomposites film, plates and structural components as well as nanostructured aerogels for thermal insulation applications. Nanoparticle dispersion equipment such as ultrasonic bath, tip sonication and mechanical high shear mixer are also available for processing polymer nanocomposites. Fracture analysis and microstructural studies are carried out using available optical, scanning and transmission electron microscopes as well as x- ray diffraction (central analytical facility). An in- house FEA code (NOVA- 3. D) for predicting long term environmental durability of polymer and polymer composites is also available. Return to top. Advanced Material Testing Laboratory Location of Facility: South Engineering Research Center Director Name: Dr. Mark Barkey and Dr. Mark Weaver. Director Email: mbarkey@eng. Description: Features multiple servo- hydraulic testing frames ranging in load capacity from 5. The equipment is capable of fatigue testing materials and small structures in axial tension/compression, multiaxial tension- torsion, and combined bending and torsion. Related equipment includes an induction coil heating unit for thermo- mechanical fatigue, a high temperature isothermal furnace and a moderate temperature isothermal test chamber for material testing. The Mechanical Testing Laboratory in the North Engineering Research Center contains a full suite of electromechanical and servohydraulic load frames capable of load capacities ranging from 1. N at temperatures up 1. C. The lab also houses a Gleeble 1. Hopkinson bbar, and a full nano- and micro- mechanical test lab with indentation and wear test capabilities. Return to top. Analytical Geochemistry Lab. Location of Facility: Tom Bevill Energy, Mineral, and Materials Science Research Building. Director Name: Dr. Rona Donahoe. Director Email: rdonahoe@as. Key Staff: Sid Bhattacharyya. Description: This lab houses an inductively- coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP- OES) and an inductively- coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP- MS) for elementala analysis in a wide range of samples. Return to top. Athletic Training Research Lab. Location of Facility: Moore Hall 0. Director Name: Lizzie Hibberd. Director Email: eehibberd@ches. Description: The ATRL specializes in clinical outcomes research in the field of athletic training with the ultimate goal of improving athletic performance while decreasing the risk of injury in athletes of all ages. The ATRL is equipped with diagnostic ultrasound, high- speed video cameras, Go. Pro cameras, dynamometers, inclinometers, palpation meter, vernier calipers and therapeutic exercise equipment. Return to top. Atomic Absorbance Spectrometer. Location of Facility: Shelby Hall 3. Director Name: Dr. Laura Busenlehner. Director Email: lsbusenlehner@ua. Description: Atomic absorbance spectrometer capable of quantifying concentration of specific elements based on the specific flame emission of the element. Return to top. Biolog Instrumentation. Location of Facility: James B. Mc. Millan Building 1. Director Name: Dr. Nicole Powell. Director Email: npowell@ua. Website: http: //psychology. Description: Biolog machine (measures skin conductance and interbeat interval data) old. Return to top. Bio. Pac Psychophysiology Systems and Brain Vision EEG Amplifiers. Location of Facility: Gordan Palmer Hall Hall 4. Director Name: Dr. Alexa Tullett. Director Email: atullett@ua. Website: http: //psychology. Description: Two Bio. Pac psychophysiology systems and two Brain Vision EEG amplifiers (along with associated electrodes and batteries)Return to top. Bio. Tek ELx. 50 Microplate Instrumentation. Location of Facility: Gordan Palmer Hall Hall 3. BDirector Name: Dr. Andrea Glenn. Director Email: andrea. Website: http: //psychology. Description: Bio. Tek ELx. 50 Microplate strip washer, Microplate reader. Return to top. Bio. Tek Multiwell Plate Reader. Location of Facility: Shelby Hall 2. Director Name: Marco Bonizzoni. Director Email: mbonizzoni@ua. Description: The Bio. Tek muliwell plate reader can read absorbance or fluorescnece intensity in standard 9. Return to top. Center for Green Manufacturing. Location of Facility: Shelby Hall. Director Name: Dr. Robin D. Rogers. Director Email: RDRogers@ua. Description: FT- IR w/ATR, Shimadzu HPLC, Cary UV- Vis, laser light scattering, and instrumentation for viscosity (Cambridge Viscosity VISCOLab 3. Anton Paar Density Meter DMA 5. Mettler Toledo C2. Coulometric Karl Fisher Titrator), TA Instruments Digital Scanning Calorimetry, TA Instruments Thermal Gravimetric Analyses w/ Dycor mass spectrometer accessory, as well as state- of- the- art X- ray diffraction (Siemens CCD area detector- equipped single crystal diffractometer with low temperature capabilities). Return to top. Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT)Location of Facility: Tom Bevill Energy, Mineral, and Materials Science Research Building. Director Name: Dr. Takao Suzuki. Director Email: takaosuzuki@mint. Website: http: //mint. Description: Processing equipment includes an ADAM, Anneal Furnace, Bake Ovens, EVE, Key Four Target RF- DC Sputtering System, March II Asher, Pulsed Laser Deposition Tool, Quintel 7. Contact/Proximity Photolithography Aligner, RASCAL, SHIRLEY and Vacuum Magnetic Annealing System. Characterization equipment includes a 3. GHz Ferromagnetic Resonance Spectrometer, Dek. Tak II, Digital Instruments Nanospec. IV, AFM, DMS Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, Flexus Stress Measurement tool, Hysitron, Nano. Indenter, Hysitron Tribo. Indenter, Low Temperature Broadband Ferromagnetic, Resonance, Philips X- Ray Diffraction, Princeton Alternating Gradient Magnetometer, Quantum Design – Physical Properties Measurement System, Quantum Design - Magnetic Properties, Measurement System, Rigaku X- Ray Diffraction and Woolam Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometer. Return to top. Central Analytical Facility. Location of Facility: Tom Bevill Energy, Mineral, and Materials Science Research Building. Director Name: David E. Nikles. Director Email: dnikles@mint. Key Staff: Rich Martens - Manager, Johnny Goodwin and Rob Holler, technical staff (Contact Rich Martens regarding usage). Description: The Central Analytical Facility is a sharred user facility. It houses major instruments for use by research groups, either from UA and other institutions across the Southeast. It trains student to be productive, hands- on users of the instruments. The imajor instruments include; Philips XL- 3. JEOL 7. 00. 0 FEG source scaninng electron microscope, JEOL 8. FEI Tecnai F- 2. 0 transmission electron microscope, FEI Quanta 3. D dual beam FIB, Tescan FEG source dual beam FIB, Kratos Axis 1. Auger/X- ray photoelectron spectrometer, Bruker D8 Advance powder X- ray diffractometer with GAADS.
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