Welding Research Lab
Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
17 Reber Building, UP
(814) 863-3245



 

Director:

    Pan Michaleris

Equipment:

1. 2 Lincoln Electric Powerwave 455 STT welders.
2. Linear motion Device (universal skipwelder manufactured by Bug-O)
3. Hypertherm Hyp2000 plasma cutter.
4. 4' X 6' Weldsale welding table
5. Flynn Burner corporation Flame manager setup with 2 flame heaters and air-gas mixing and flow control setup.
6. Job ramming down setup consisting pneumatic cylinders, direction and flow control valves and air compressor.
7. Alignment setup consisting I-beams and job holding fixture.

Instrumentation:

1. National Instruments SCXI 1000 Chasis and multiplexer with cable and PCI6035E DAC board.
2. National Instruments SCXI 1520, 8 channel strain gauge module and SCXI 1314 terminal block.
3. National Instruments SCXI 1102, 32 channel thermocouple module and SCXI 1314 terminal block.
4. National Instruments SCXI 1540, 8 channel LVDT module and SCXI 1314 terminal block.
5. National Instruments SCXI 1520, 8 channel relay module.
6. Dedicated Windows NT4.0 system running on 400 MHz Pentium II.
7. 4 LVDTs having a total stroke of 300 mm
8. Several thermocouples and strain gauges.
9. Measurements group blind hole drilling machine RS-200.



Last Updated: 9/1/01