Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Upgrades and Additions to the Mechanics of Materials Laboratory

成立于1975年的材料力学实验室将进行升级和扩建。实验室由微机控制的MTS轴扭伺服液压力学试验系统组成。升级是针对高温（高达1000摄氏度）双轴测试能力，涉及电子，双轴延伸计的校准和试样的夹持。增加一个加压系统是必要的，以进行判别试验，以支持在无限的，不依赖时间的塑性的运动应力张量的演化规律的结构工作。

The Mechanics of Materials Laboratory, which was founded in 1975, will be upgraded and expanded. The laboratory consists of an MTS axial/torsion servohydraulic mechanical testing system with computer control. The upgrading is for the high-temperature (up to 1000 degrees C) biaxial testing capability and relates to electronics, calibration of biaxial extensometers, and gripping of specimens. The addition of a pressurization system is necessary to perform discriminating tests in support of work on the structure of the evolution law of the kinematic stress tensor in infinite, time-independent plasticity.