CCM Facilities
CCM's 34,000-sq.-ft. facility houses state-of-the-art equipment
used by students, faculty, staff, visiting scholars, and industrial
interns from both the United States and abroad. CCM has unique capabilities
for chemical characterization and surface analysis, composites manufacturing
- including textile preform fabrication, VARTM/RTM, automated tow placement,
autoclave molding, and microwave curing-joining and repair, mechanical
testing, nondestructive evaluation, on-line sensing, and computational
modeling and simulation. In addition to CCM equipment, CCM-affiliated
faculty, research staff, and students have access to facilities in other
UD departments and centers and at ARL's Rodman Materials Research Laboratory
in Aberdeen, Md. through the collaborative research programs.
Equipment Summary
- Major manufacturing and processing equipment
- Set-up for VARTM and RTM; autoclave processing; compression molding
(hot press); induction heating; robotic fiber placement; filament
winder.
- Nondestructive evaluation equipment - Traditional NDE with
C-scan.
- Mechanical testing equipment - Full suite of state-of-the-art,
instrumented quasi-static and fatigue load frames with environmental
chambers; drop towers.
- Microscopy facilities - TEM, SEM, AFM, optical, with specimen
prep facilities, image analysis capability.
- Chemical characterization equipment - FTIR, TGA, DMA, DSC.
Questions? Call 302-831-8149 or email us at info-ccm@udel.edu |