FACILITIES

Ideal for polymers, elastomers, and other soft materials

Dual-column, table-mounted

Low-capacity 2-kN load cell

Long-travel 10-in. extensometer

Pneumatic side-action grips with modular jaw faces

Uniaxial tension testing (multiple strain rates, cyclic load/unload, creep, stress relaxation)

Custom fixtures for uniaxial compression and pure shear testing

FLIR Blackfly 3.0 machine vision cameras with Sony IMX267 sensors

Edmund Optics high-performance 35 mm fixed focal length lenses

Genaray Spectro 500IIB LED Panels

Polarizing filters for cross-polarization imaging

Custom speckle patterning stamps; airbrush

DICe open-source software

Gas-purge desiccator (nitrogen-based humidity-controlled environment)

Electro-pneumatic pressure regulator

Josef Prusa i3 MK3S+ FDM desktop 3D printer with 3D UP Fitters acrylic enclosure

PCE-DD-A Shore A durometer

University of Dayton NEST Lab for imaging and microstructural characterization

• Intel Xeon E-2176G six-core 3.7 GHz processor

• 64 GB RAM

• 2 TB HDD

• NVIDIA Quadro P2000 5GB graphics card

• 10 ProLiant DL560 Gen8 servers

• Each server has four Intel Xeon CPU E5-4657L v2 @ 2.40GHz, 2394 MHz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s), 256 GB RAM, SSD hard drives

• Pitzer cluster

  • Designed by Dell with Intel Skylake processors and NVIDIA V100 accelerators

  • 10,500+ x86 cores, 64 NVIDIA GPUs, and approximately 70 TBs of RAM

  • Theoretical peak performance of approximately 1.3 PFLOPS

• Owens cluster

  • Designed by Dell with Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA P100 accelerators

  • 23,392 x86 cores, 160 GPUs, and 120TB of RAM

  • Theoretical peak performance of approximately 1.6 PFLOPS