In addition to accessing cutting-edge facilities, our services could include research, product development and prototyping, and systems testing and evaluation.
Facilities
- Fiber placement facility (Ingersoll Machine Tools Lynx AFP 16 x 0.250”) operational and available for large scale specimen production, prototyping and research
- Fusion bonding laboratory operational and available for induction welding, VARTM, friction stir welding and basic research
- Computational design facility operational including CAD and CAE environment, and also optimization infrastructure
- Aircraft and component testing (design, sensor optimization, analytics)
- Digital Transformation Lab (development of digital transformation use cases with various partners)
Research
- Open and proprietary research support to consortia and companies
- Manufacturing research (process development, part production, assembly, qualification, DFM)
- Materials research (synthesis, surface treatments)
- Maintenance research (condition based maintenance, inspection technology, evaluation strategies, repair technology)
- Unmanned vehicles (aerial, ground, and marine)
- Digital transformation of industry
- Digital twin development
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Predictive analytics (remaining useful life, diagnostic/prognostic, fault detection, design optimization)
- Automated fiber placement (design optimization, process planning, materials, toolpath optimization, defect anticipation, data analytics)
- Combustion (energy conversion and propulsion, rapid fuel characterization tools, control and diagnostics)
Product Development/Prototyping or Systems Testing/Evaluation
- Material testing and characterization (NDI, NDE, Destructive testing, Acoustic Emission)
- Health monitoring (System design, testing, basic research)
- Dynamic testing
- Certification support
- Computational design, analysis and optimization
- Component testing (design, sensor development and optimization, analytics)