Hardware
Load testing machines
 | Biaxial testing machine. Machine capable of simulatenous strain along two orthongonal axes. Strains and strain rates are set independently for each axis. Maximum loads of 100N and range of movement 300mm for each axis. |
| Instron Static testing machine Accessories : 500N load cell precision 0.5 variety of grippers for metal( polymers, elastomers, threads) |
 | Dynamic mechanical analysis (Dr. Ardebili’s Equipment) Accessories Shear sandwich, cantilever, and tension grippers |
 | Differential Scanning Calorimeters (Dr. Ardebili’s Equipment) Accessories N/A |
Fabrication
 | Sinterit Lisa Pro Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) 3D printer Materials PA12 (nylon) Polypropylene (PP) Flexa-grey (TPU, Thermoplastic polyurethane) and others… |
 | Formlabs Form 3 3D printer Special materials (in addition to the standard ones) Rebound Resin |
 | Formlabs Form 2 3D printer Special materials (in addition to the standard ones) Ceramic resin Polyurethane |
 | Makerbot X 3D printer (Dr. Joshi‘s equipment) Special materials (in addition to the standard ones) Carbon Fiber filaments ULTRAFUSE® 316L Stainless Steel |
 | Trotec Speedy 360 Materials Acrylic, PFTE, Rubber, Conductive rubber |
 | LENS 500 Hybrid Controlled Atmosphere System (Equipment of AMI) Materials Stainless steel Aluminum other metallic particles between 325 to 100 mesh |
 | Stratasys J35 Pro – Multi-Material 3D Printing Materials Elastomers to rigid polymers and intermediate mixtures |
Software
Abaqus Color spectrum – git
This creates several color gradients in Abaqus visualization. The colormaps are taken from Matplotlib. Note that one should never use the default colormap in Abaqus for figures (read more here)
Abaqus Truss / Beam analysis – git
This script takes as input a set of nodal coordinates, connectivities (which also contain the beam information, i.e. E, A, I), boundary conditions and creates an Abaqus model with these defined. The analysis can be set to run automatically.
Matlab truss analysis (linear and nonlinear) (Coming soon)
This Matlab script takes as input a set of nodal coordinates, connectivities (which also contain the beam information, i.e. E, A, I), boundary conditions, calculates the stiffness tensor, and then the deformation vector.
Bar network STL generator (Matlab and python) – git
Instead of using the native mesher for cylindrical bar network, which will create large file sizes, this code takes the set of nodal coordinates, connectivities and area, as well as the polygon count, and outputs a STL file (ascii or binary) with much smaller file size.
Gcode generator for material testing – git
Generating only fill on the x-y plane oriented at a fixed orientation w.r.t. the x axis, replicated in the z direction. The xy pass overlap and the z pass overlap can be controlled independently.
Chebchev net generator (Coming soon)