Equipment & Capabilities

• Continuum Surelite I-10 4.85 Watts Nd:YAG Laser unit with 5-7 ns pulsed laser capability 

• Molectron power/energy meter with power/energy meter probe 

• Aerotech 3-axis positioning stage with 0.1 nm positioning accuracy 

• Aerotech U500 CNC software

• NSK ASTRO-E 800 electrically driven spindle system 250 W power with 80,000 rpm for micro-end milling 

• ROMI Centur 35E, CNC turret lathe with 3,500 rpm spindle

• Bridgeport Vertical CNC Milling Machine with 6,000 rpm spindle

• Brown & Sharpe Reflex 343 Coordinate Measuring Machine

• Kistler Turret Mount Three Component Dynamometer, Type 9121, Force Measurement

• Kistler Force Plate Three Component Dynamometer, Type 9253 Force Measurement

• Kistler Acoustic Emission Sensors, Amplifiers

• Mitutoyo SJ-400 Digital Surface Analyzer

• Taylor-Habson Surtronic 3+ Profilometer, Surface Roughness Measurement

• PC-Based Data Acquisition Systems

• Future-Tech Rockwell Type Hardness Tester

• Newport Precision Instrument Stages

• State-of-the-art material characterization equipment including high-resolution electron microscopy (SEM, FESEM, TEM), X-Ray Diffraction equipment, and Atomic Force Microscopy equipment are available at Materials Science and Engineering Department of Rutgers University.

Fig. 1: Laser assisted micro manufacturing station.

Software

• Matlab, Data Processing and Analysis
• LabView, Data Acquisition and Processing
• ABAQUS/Standard, ABAQUS/Explicit Version 6.4
• DEFORM 2D V 7.1 / 3D
• SolidWorks 2004, Solid Modeling
• COSMOS FEA software
• FeatureCAM, Computer Aided Manufacturing/Machining
• Statgraphics, Statistical Analysis

Fig.2: Force and Acoustic Emission Measurements for Turning, Boring, Cut-Off, Grooving, Facing and Profile Turning Processes

Fig. 3: Force and Acoustic Emission Measurement Set-up for 3-axis CNC Milling