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Throughout my time as an undergraduate, I had the opportunity to work through many different experiments within my classes. Just some of those experiments are shown here.
An experiment conducted to analyze linear momentum through the use of a water jet, a target with varying degrees of offshoot, a rotameter, and a strain gauge.
An experiment in which pipe friction was found and analyzed for various lengths of pipe.
Here, a sample of brass was cold worked through rolling. Rockwell hardness values were measured to analyze the effect of cold working on the sample. Eventually, we began having tearing at the edge of the sample due to the high stresses.
The Rockwell hardness instrument we used in many of these experiments.
A test conducted with a ball and high speed camera as a way to compare vibration dampening characteristics of steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber samples for a quadcopter frame analysis project.
Microstructure of oil-quenched 1045 steel viewed under a microscope after polishing with 1µm diamond paste. Steels of varying carbon content were analyzed through this method after undergoing different heat treatments.
Cantilever beam experiment. Weights were placed at the free end of a cantilever beam and values of stress, strain, and deflection were found with the use of a dial indicator and strain gauge.
Determining to octane number of an unknown fuel by utilizing the CR research method on a Cooperative Fuel Research (CFR) engine. An additional experiment was conducted on this engine to analyze the operating characteristics at varying spark advances through a computer data acquisition system.
In this experiment, a Chevy 350 V8 was hooked up to a dynamometer to record values of brake torque, mean effective pressure, fuel conversion efficiency, and specific fuel consumption at varying engine speeds.
A tensile test machine similar to the one pictured here was used in several experiments to record the tensile strength of steel, aluminum, 90 degree carbon fiber, and 45 degree carbon fiber.
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