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Manufacturing & Automation Research Laboratory
© 2003-2013

Director:
T. Özel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
Industrial & Systems Engg. 
Rutgers University
96 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
(848) 445-1099
E-mail:
ozel@rutgers.edu


Equipment & Capabilities @ Rutgers MARL

  • 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

  • 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

Software @ Rutgers MARL

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

Facilities @ Rutgers iAMDN

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 Institute of Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology (IAMDN) at Rutgers University: