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Flight Structures Lab | College of Engineering, WSU

John Bardo Center

Flight Structures Lab

Located in the John Bardo Center (Room 143)

The Flight Structures Lab provides for advanced structural testing of materials, components, and prototypes. Students get hands-on experience conducting tests using top-notch equipment, instruments and methods. This lab is used for curricular instruction, to support undergraduate senior design projects, undergraduate and graduate research, and for funded research.

Additional Information

Test Equipment and accessories

  • MTS Electromechanical Testing machines (5 kip, 22 kip and 55 kip capacity) with Testsuite control and data acquisition software
  • MTS Low-velocity drop tower
  • Custom built low capacity torsion testing apparatus
  • Whiffle tree apparatus for distributed loading
  • Load cells ( 1.1 lbs, 11 lbs, 50 lbs, 100 lbs, 250 lbs, 500 lbs, 1000 lbs)
  • Strain gage signal conditioners : Vishay 2210
  • Load cell signal conditioners : Interface Model 9840 Digital Process Monitor (x2)
  • GOM Aramis 5M photogrammetry system (shared with NIAR AVET labs)
  • CSM Pin-on-disk Tribometer
  • Split-Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus
  • Picoscope Oscilloscope
  • LVDT's

Test Fixtures

  • Mechanical wedge grips (5 kip and 50 kip capacity)
  • Pneumatic grips (50 lb capactity)
  • Compression platens (Ø 2in , Ø 6in)
  • Compression test fixtures (ASTM D695, ASTM D6641)
  • Shear test fixtures (picture frame - 9inx 9in, 4in x 4in, ASTM D5379, ASTM D7078)
  • 3-pt and 4-point bending test fixtures
  • Mode-I interlaminar fracture toughness ( ASTM D5528)
  • Mode-II interlaminar fractue toughness (ASTM D7905)
  • Mixed-mode interlaminar fracture toughness (ASTM D6671)
  • Clevises for Overheight Compact Tension (OCT) and Overheight Compact Compression (OCC) testing of laminated composites
  • In-plane tension test fixtures for honeycomb core sheets

Faculty

Suresh Keshavanarayana

Student Researchers

Current Students:

  • Kazune Tazawa
  • Aiden Holt
  • Laura Page Nobles
  • Md. Tareq Siddiqui

Former students:

  • Hoolooman Ramdial
  • Dmitri Ivanov
  • Dr. Hooman Shahverdi Moghaddam 
  • Kaitlyn Kahle
  • Jonathan Coleman
  • Dr. Felipe Juan Acosta
  • Anandvijay Karuppiah
  • Shritha Jagadheeswaran
  • Ganesh Yerram Netha
  • Aakash Kothare
  • Bhupen Malhotra
  • Aswini Kona Ravi
  • Akhil Bhasin
  • Amul Shrestha

Projects

 

Publications

 

Questions?

If you have questions about the Flight Structures Lab or would like to use it, you may call the Department of Aerospace Engineering at (316) 978-3410 or contact  Dr. Suresh Keshavanarayana.

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