Yang Research Group

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Yang Research Group

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin

Facilities

Our lab is located in CPE 1.168, CPE 1.106, and CPE 1.110 (1,700 sq ft in total) on the main campus of UT-Austin. Besides our owned lab equipment, we also have access to the Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics’ shared material preparation room & fume hood, Aerospace Engineering Department machine shop, shared facilities in the Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials, and other shared facilities on campus. More details can be found below.

If you cannot access YouTube, please check our virtual lab tour here: Virtual lab tour.

FDM 3D Printers 

SLA 3D Printers: Formlabs Form 3+ & 3B+ 

  • 3D SLA printers with washing and curing station
  • Produce functional, high-quality prototypes and end-use parts
  • The Form 3B+ is compatible with our entire SLA materials library, including biocompatible, sterilizable materials.
  • Link: https://formlabs.com/

TA Instrument ARES-G2 Rheometer

  • The ARES-G2 is the most advanced rotational rheometer for research and material development
  • Advanced Peltier System, APS testing temperature range:  -10 °C to 150 °C
  • Various flat and cone shape plates
  • Being able to test hydrogels/tissues/granular materials immersed in liquids
  • Link: https://www.tainstruments.com/ares-g2

Instron 68FM-100 Universal Testing Machine

  • The Instron 68FEM-100 Floor Mounted Materials Testing System has force capacity 100 kN (22.5k lbf)
  • Static load cells: 100kN, 1kN, and 100N
  • Various tensile and compression grips to mount different specimen geometries,
  • Both extensometers with extenders and Digital Image Correlation are available to measure displacements and strain fields

Nikon AX Confocal Microscope

  • Fully motorized Ti2-E Inverted Microscope
  • Fluorescence components
  • AX Confocal system
  • Workstation and software package for confocal
  • CFI60 Plan Apochromat objective lens and various Plan Fluor objective lens
  • Custom built augmented Lagrangian Digital Image Correlation and Digital Volume Correlation code packages to conduct image analysis

Custom Built Needle-Induced Cavitation System

  • Automatically controlled syringe pump system
  • 1 psi, 15 psi, and 30 psi pressure sensors
  • NI DAQ to collect experimental data
  • High speed camera 5k fps with 1000 pixels x 1000 pixels resolution per frame
  • Manual and image based triggering system
  • Custom built motorized xyz translation stage
  • High power LED light system

Shimadzu HPV-X2 w/ Pulsed Laser Illumination

  • Ultra-high-speed camera (Shimadzu HPV-X2) is able to capture extremely fast events at up to 10 million frames per second (fps) with 400 pixels x 250 pixels per frame
  • High power pulsed laser illumination system (Cavilux Smart Laser Unit) can achieve 10 ns exposure time between two consecutive frames

 

We also have access to other facilities on campus: