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Manufacturing Automation Research Laboratory
© 2003-2008

Director:
Tugrul Özel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
Industrial & Systems Engg. 
Rutgers University
96 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
(732) 445-1099
Fax: (732) 445-5467

ozel@rutgers.edu


Equipment & Capabilities

  • Continuum Surelite I-10 4.85 Watts Nd:YAG Laser unit with 5-7 ns pulsed laser capability 

  • Molectron power/energy meter with power/energy meter probe 

  • Aerotech 3-axis positioning stage with 0.1 nm positioning accuracy 

  • Aerotech U500 CNC software

  • NSK ASTRO-E 800 electrically driven spindle system 250 W power with 80,000 rpm for micro-end milling 

  • ROMI Centur 35E, CNC turret lathe with 3,500 rpm spindle

  • Bridgeport Vertical CNC Milling Machine with 6,000 rpm spindle

  • Brown & Sharpe Reflex 343 Coordinate Measuring Machine

  • Kistler Turret Mount Three Component Dynamometer, Type 9121, Force Measurement

  • Kistler Force Plate Three Component Dynamometer, Type 9253 Force Measurement

  • Kistler Acoustic Emission Sensors, Amplifiers

  • Mitutoyo SJ-400 Digital Surface Analyzer

  • Taylor-Habson Surtronic 3+ Profilometer, Surface Roughness Measurement

  • PC-Based Data Acquisition Systems

  • Future-Tech Rockwell Type Hardness Tester

  • Newport Precision Instrument Stages

  • State-of-the-art material characterization equipment including high-resolution electron microscopy (SEM, FESEM, TEM), X-Ray Diffraction equipment, and Atomic Force Microscopy equipment are available at Materials Science and Engineering Department of Rutgers University.

Software

  • Matlab, Data Processing and Analysis
  • LabView, Data Acquisition and Processing
  • ABAQUS/Standard, ABAQUS/Explicit Version 6.4
  • DEFORM 2D V 7.1 / 3D
  • SolidWorks 2004, Solid Modeling
  • COSMOS FEA software
  • FeatureCAM, Computer Aided Manufacturing/Machining
  • Statgraphics, Statistical Analysis

Experimental Set-Ups


Fig. 1: Laser assisted micro manufacturing station.


Fig.2: Force and Acoustic Emission Measurements for Hard Turning


Fig. 3: Force and Acoustic Emission Measurements  for 3-axis CNC Milling