xTS Compact for XRT & NASA-Marshall Collaboration on "Moon to Mars" Small Puncture

Setting the stage for multi-scale materials testing for high speed travel to and from Earth, Moon, and Mars. xTS Compact - Materials Testing System for Tight uCT & XRay Tomography Spaces

These compact frames are ideal for?in situ testing to your beamline, CT scanner & X-Ray microscopes.? The new xTS?Compact 10kN?version is only 336 mm tall.? All?xTS?now utilize?high resolution load cell?technology.?This design?improvement eliminates?rotating connectors in the sensor and reducing the need time and effort of realignment between test of different load ranges.

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NASA-Marshall Space Flight & Psylotech Collaborate on Small Punch Test (SPT)?

In collaboration with NASA-Marshall Space Flight, Psylotech has built a small punch test (SPT) fixture.??SPT?enables cost effective, high throughput materials testing.?We also started a CAN collaboration to test small-scale samples up to 2,500C for supporting deep space exploration.

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User Profile: UIUC AMTEL Capabilities?

The Advanced Materials Testing and Evaluation Laboratory of the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign serves the broader community in addition to the students and faculty on campus. Users of?AMTEL?have access to state of the art optical diagnostic equipment in length scales down to 0.5 mm and test frames with load capabilities from 10 N to 400 kN. For more information please visit?amtel.illinois.edu?or [email protected]

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Recent Publications & Awards

NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center

Omar Mireles, Ryan Wilkerson, Francisco Medina and Edel Arrieta,?Additive Manufacture of Porous ZrC for NTP In-Core Insulators

University of Waterloo, Department of Kinesiology

DR Martel, DY Dapaah, T Willett, AC Laing,?Predictors of Femoral Neck Bone Fracture Toughness and Strength Under High-Rate Impact Loading

University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Hadi Mirmohammad,?SEM 3rd Place Winner,?In-Situ Full-Field Strain Measurement at the Sub-grain Scale Using the Scanning Electron Microscope Grid Method?

Harbin Institute?of Technology, Department of Astronautic Science and Mechanics

Ruijian Sun, Licheng Guo, Zhixing Li, Li Zhang, Tao Zheng,?A novel approach to assessing yarn/matrix (or yarn/yarn) in situ interfacial strength in 3D woven composites

More?papers?at our [email protected] or 847-328-7100 x 18??