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		The School of Materials Science and Engineering is housed in Sirrine Hall on the Clemson University campus.
The teaching and research facilities of the School of Materials Science and Engineering are primarily located in Sirrine Hall. These teaching and research laboratories include: Weaving Laboratories Nonwoven Laboratories Dyeing, Finishing & Printing Laboratory Clemson Apparel Research Facility Composites Fabrication Physical Testing Laboratory Fiber Physics Laboratory Electrical/Electronic Fiber and Fabric Properties Laboratory Extrusion and Rheology Analytical Laboratories Advanced Metallic and Composites Group Graduate students from the School also have access to the University's excellent electron microscopy (scanning, transmission and Auger microanalysis) laboratory, a newly installed X-ray diffractometer in Ceramic Engineering, stereo lithography in Bioengineering, and hydraulic mechanical testing for fatigue analysis in Mechanical Engineering. Clemson University also provides its graduate students with universal w.w.w. access and outstanding mainframe, mini and micro-computational support. Weaving Laboratory Room 46 Pignone Loom with Staubli Electronic Jacquard 1.9 Meter, 2688 Hooks Picanol OMNI-A Air Jet Loom 70", Cam Sulzer Ruti Projectile Loom 190cm, Dobby, 18 Harness, 4 Color American Dornier Rapier Loom 74", 4 Filling Feed Bonas Needle Loom Cam Motion Herzog Braider 2-16 Spool Discs Herzog Winder 2 Spool w/Creel Back to TOP Nonwoven Laboratories Room 9 The NEW Nonwoven Lab CMC Rando - Opener/Cleaner Bamatic Chute Feeder Bamatic Card Bamatic Cross Lapper Automatex Needle Puncher   Room 05 Web Formation 12" Rando Webber 20" Proctor & Schwartz Roll-Top Card EVAC Vacuum System Web Processing - Latex Foam Bonding Stork Foamer Web Finishing 20" Aztec Hot-Air Thru Oven 20" Benz Thermal Bonding Calendar 9" Pinsonic 12" Fiber Locker Needle Punch 12" Hydro-Entanglement Water Jet System Back to TOP Dyeing, Finishing & Printing Laboratory Room 22 (2) Despatch Ovens Ernst Benz Oven Rotary Washer Centrifigal Extractor Speed Queen Industrial Dryer Padder Stork Roller Printer Werner Mathis Steamer Paddle Wheel Dyer (2) Altas Launderometers Flat Bed Screen Printer Ahiba Dyer Atlas Fadeometer Back to TOP Clemson Apparel Research Facility Back to TOP Composites Fabrication Room 61 Carver 18x18" 60 Ton, 350 C, Hydraulic Press Back to Top Physical Evaluation Facility Room 270/272 Mission of the Physical Testing Facility The Physical Evaluation Laboratory serves the Students, Graduate Students, and Faculty of the School of Materials Science and Engineering. The Laboratory is made available to other Departments in the College of Engineering and Sciences and the University. As part of our mission we also provide public service testing on a fee basis for Industry. The Laboratory uses various published "Standards" such as American Society Testing & Materials (ASTM), Federal Test Methods (FTM), American Association of Textile Colorists & Chemists (AATCC ) as well as "Standards" written by individuals and companies to accomplish the testing required. This assures compatibility and repeatability between tests and other facilities. For further information call Robbie Nicholson at (864) 656-5972 or fax to (864) 656-5983. Fiber and Yarn Property Characterization Zellweger Uster HVI 900 Zellweger Uster AFIS Zellweger Uster, Uster Tester III Zellweger Uster, Uster Tester IV Techno Statimat II M Lawson Hemphill CTT Yarn Tester Lawson Hemphill EIB Yarn Tester Fiber/Yarns/Fabric Characterization Instron 1125R/5500 Instron 5582 Textest 3000 Hydrostatic Head Tester Textest 3300 Air Permeability Tester Textest 3700 Digital Elmendorf Pilling, Abrasion, Burst, Drape, Flammability Optical Microscopy and Image Analysis Systems (2) Aus Jena JENAPOL U INTERPHAKO Polarizing Mach Zehnder Interference Research Microscope (Birefringence) Leitz Labrolux R/T w/lightfield and darkfield Fiber Microtomes Beuhler Two Head Polisher/Grinder & Isomet 1000 Saw for sample Preparation Image Analysis Systems ( Color ) Sony Video Printer Sony Digital Camera Model 90 with Martin Microscope Camera to Microscope Adapter Sony Super VHS Recorder with Camera and Lens Color Measurement MacBeth ColorEye 3000 Spectrophotometer Xrite SP78 Spectrophotometer Back to TOP Fiber Physics Laboratory Room 340 Computer-controlled single filament torsional modulus instrument Breaking twist angle tester Keithley, Inc., System for electrical conductivity measurements Electrostatic voltmeters. Thermal conductivity testing apparatus Single Fiber Accustic Emission Failure Analyzer Sonic Modulus Analyzer Keithly 6517A Electrometer/High Resistance Meter Keithly 182 Sensitive Digital Voltmeter Back to TOP Electrical/Electronic Fiber and Fabric Properties Laboratory Hewlett Packard 8757XB Microwave Scaler Network Analyzer 100MHz to 50GHz Hewlett Packard Scaler Analyzer (S parameter test) Questek 2010 Excimer Laser Alessi Four Point Probe Keithly 228A Voltage/Current Source Keithly 220 Current Source Keithly 197A Microvolt Digital Multimeter Keithly 2000 and 2001 Digital Multimeters Back to TOP Extrusion and Rheology Laboratory Room 263 Hills, Inc. Pilot Scale Fiber Extruder, 1", 1800 m/min. Barmag SW7 High Speed Winder Instron Capillary Rheometer Haake Rheocord 90 Rheometer Brookfield DV-III Rheometer Lab Scale Wet Spin Line Instron 4502 with Model 3210 Rheometer Headway Research, Inc. PM 101DT-R790 Spin Coater Back to TOP Analytical Laboratories Room 67/68,40,41,43,45 Chemical Analysis, Separation Science Dionex Liquid Chromatograph with GP50 Pump & AD25 Absorbance Detector Waters SEC System with 600E Pump and 410 DRI and 996 PDA Detectors and Millenium Software Waters Breeze Gel Permeation Chromatograph with Waters 2487 UV/Vis, Waters 2414 DRI, Waters 717 Auto-__Sampler & PolymerLabs PL-ELS 2000 Selerity Series 4000 SFC Spectroscopy Biorad/Digilab Division FTS-45 FT-IR Nicolet Magna 550 with NicPlan FT-IR Microscope and Mapping Stage LT Quantum 1200 NIR with Fiber Optics Reflectance Head Shimadzu 3101-PC UV-Vis-NIR Spectrometer FT-NMR Spectrometer (Hunter Hall) Thermo Finnigan Trace GC/MS Additional Chemical Instrumentation Cahn Dynamic Contact Angle Analyzer SensaDyne Bubble Tensiometer Kruss DSA 10 Contact Angle Analyzer Suprex PrepMaster Supercritical Fluid Extractor Dionex ASE 200 Accelerated Solvent Extractor Wyatt Technology Dawn DSP Laser Light Scattering: 18 angle Ar+, Optilab DSP Differential Refractometer Thermal Analysis TA Instruments Thermal Analyst 3100 2950 Hi-Res Thermogravimetric Analyzer 2920 Differential Scanning Calorimeter TA Instruments Q1000 DSC Seiko Instruments SSC 5300 Thermal Analysis System Seiko DMS 210 Dynamic Thermal Mechanical Analyzer Seiko TMA/SS 350 Thermal Mechanical Analyzer Solomat TSC/RMA Relaxation Spectrometer Parr 1455 Solution Calorimeter AMRL Waters Gel Permeation Chromatograph: 815 HPLC Pump, Heated Columns, 410 DRI, 486 Abs. Det. Viscotek T50A Differential Viscometer Bio-Analytical Systems 100B Electrochemical Analyzer Jupiter Intrument Co. Membrane Osmometer Model 231 Back to TOP Advanced Metallic and Composites Facilities Materials Processing Planar flow caster Ajax induction melting system Centorr arc melter(2) Inert atmosphere melt spinner Lombard 150 ton vertical extrusion/forging press Stanat 2/4/6 high instrumented rolling mill Equal channel angular extruder Solidica Form-ation ultrasonic consolidation system Attritor mills(2) Powder blenders(3) Shaker sieves Spec’s mill High temperature (2000C) inert atmosphere furnace Single crystal puller Lindberg tube furnaces (6) Lindberg box furnaces (5) Thermcraft salt balt(6) Low temperature oil baths (2) Huppert recirculating air furnace Marshall vertical quench furnace High temperature(1650C) inert atmosphere quench furnace High pressure infiltration system Low pressure infiltration system Quartz Encapsulation system Material Characterization Scintag XDS 2000 x-ray diffractometer Nikon inverted optical microscope Netszch differential calorimeter (-110C to 1600C) In-situ, inert atmosphere high temperature resistivity system (2) Eddy current apparatus Dynamic modulus apparatus with assorted transducers High temperature creep machines (12) MTS/Instron closed loop servohydraulic machine (2) Instron/MTI screw driven test machines RR Moore rotating beam fatigue machine (3) RI Thermal fatigue apparatus Automated reciprocating sliding wear apparatus (3) Pin-on-disk wear apparatus (2) High velocity gas gun Instrumented SATEC impact machine Metallographic Equipment Struers Cut-off machine Buehler high speed diamond cut-off machine South bay abrasive wire saw Buehler hot press Surface grinder Buehler grinders(4) Struers automatic polishers(6) Vibramet automatic polishers(3) Buehler electropolishers(2) Fatigue/tensile sample electropolisher South bay core grinder High definition scnner Gatan ion millers(2) Gatan dimple grinder Gatan ultrasonic disk cutter Fischione TEM jet polisher Software Licenses ABAQUS Thermo-Calc Carine Diffract Adobe Photoshop Image Pro Fovea Pro

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