Undergraduate Nondestructive Evaluation Facility

该项目扩展了该机构现有的材料计划，包括最先进的材料和制造部件的无损评估。实验室配备的设备包括：扫描激光声显微镜、声发射分析系统、图像分析系统和涡流测试装置。这些计算机接口设备用于评估金属和非金属材料。使用增强材料实验室的学生可以进行以下实验：材料鉴定、探伤、探伤尺寸测定、半导体连续性、烧结效率、复合材料脱粘、疲劳裂纹扩展、马氏体相变、焊缝探伤和氢损伤表征。这笔奖金将由受资助者提供等额的奖金。

This project expands this institution's already existing materials program to include state-or-the-art nondestructive evaluation of materials and manufactured components. The equipment incorporated into the lab includes: a scanning laser acoustic microscope, acoustic emission analysis system, image analysis system and eddy current test device. These computer interfaced devices are used to evaluate both metallic and non-metallic materials. Students using the enhanced materials lab are able to experiment with: material identification, flaw detection, flaw size determination, semiconductor continuity, sintering efficiency, debonding of composites, fatigue crack propagation, martensitic transformations, weld flaw detection and characterization of hydrogen damage. This award is being matched by an equal sum from the grantee.