Below are some of the core facilities currently available (this is not an exhaustive list). Upcoming facilities include a fatigue testing machine, DSC, TMA, and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). In addition to the existing thermionic SEM at BGSU, a new FE-SEM dedicated to advanced manufacturing will soon be added.
Advanced Manufacturing:
o Metal 3D printer: 400W LASER
o Multiple numbers of Fused Filament fabrication (FFF) tools with different settings
o SLA and DLP printers
o Bio 3D Printer
o Custom Filament fabrication tool for FFF 3D printer
o CNC machines
o Investment casting set-up: Furnace, Electric melting furnace, vacuum system
o Arc melting facility
o Powder Compaction tool
o Liquid-Metal sythesis and composite manufacturing
Processing and Characterizations:
o Metal and Polymer tensile testing machine
o X-ray CT scan
o Heat-treatment Furnace
o Corrosion study Facility
o Induction furnace
o Optical microscope, SEM, and TEM
o X-ray tomography
o IR Thermal camera
o Sample prep facility: Polishing, Low speed saw
Computations:
o HPC computers for simulations
o Access to Supercomputing system
o Software: LAMMPS, CASTEP, ANSYS, Abaqus, Solidworks, Python, MATLAB, MasterCAM, AutoCAD, ...