Lightweight Materials and Structures Laboratory

Composites, honeycombs, functionally graded materials, and truss-based cellular solids destined for use in aerospace applications are designed, fabricated, and tested in the Lightweight Materials and Structures Laboratory.

Student, faculty, and partner research projects are sustained by a variety of small scientific equipment and supplies, hand tools, chemicals, and work benches. The space also supports the aerospace engineering structures and instrumentation laboratory course. 

Equipment

• High-temperature vacuum tube furnace
• Hi vacuum diffusion pump
• Drill press
• Band saw
• Sanding machine
• Grit blast chamber