Mechanical Engineering

Materials Science Laboratory

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This lab supports ME 336, a one-credit hour, junior-level materials science lab course. Equipment include: a Charpy Impact Tester, two Rockwell Hardness Testers, a Brinell Hardness Tester, two metallography stations, a Nikon optical microscope supported by a video camera, Noesis Image Analysis Software and a 90MHz Pentium PC, a EG&G Model 273 Potentiostat/ Galvanostat supported by Model 342 SoftCorr corrosion software, and three muffle furnaces (up to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit).

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The Mechanics of Materials Laboratory at the University of South Alabama has the following equipment: 14 Dell computers with Windows XP and numerous engineering software HP laserjet printers Tinius-Olsen Universal Testing Machine, 60,000 lb. capacity Omega Data Acquisition System Vishay Strain Gage Data Acquisition