Laboratory Capabilities

 

The Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Energy has in it's possession a wide range of Experimental and Measurement equipment. Please click on one of the following categories to view further information :

Acoustic Measurement System

Vibration Measurement System

Virtual Instrumentation (Hardware and Software)

General Measurement Equipment

Acoustic Measurement System

 

  • SVAN 943 Type 2 Sound Level Meter

  • 20 Acousticel 130A microphones with their mounting sockets

  • 1 PCB 070C21 input patch panel (16 Channels)

  • 1 Acousticel Series 513A signal conditioner (16 Channels)

  • 1 Handheld microphone calibrator

Active Noise Control Experimental Setup

 

Acoustic measurements on a dot matrix printer using the Acoustical setup.

 

Acoustic measurements performed on a commercial refrigerator

SVAN 943 Type 2 Sound Level Meter

Typical ACOUSTICEL 130B microphone used  for acoustic measurements, Handheld calibrator used for calibrating the ACOUSTICEL 130A microphones

Vibration Measurement System:

20 Single axis shear accelerometers with their mounting pads

1 PCB 070C29-S Input patch panel (16 Channels)

1 PCB 583 Series multi-channel programmable ICP power supply and signal conditioner (16 channels)

1 Handheld accelerometer calibrator

1 GK291DO1 PCB Impact Hammer kit for light and medium structures

Active Vibration Control experimental setup.

The GK291DO1 PCB Impact Hammer kit for light and medium structures

Virtual Instrument hardware and software:  

 

Intel Pentium II @ 233 MHz 320 MB RAM PC with:

2 National Instruments AT-MIO-16L-9 data acquisition boards

1 National Instruments PCI-MIO-16E4 data acquisition boards

2 National Instruments BNC-2080 Analog BNC boards

1 National Instruments BNC-2090 Analog BNC boards

LabVIEW 5.1 software

Front Panel of a virtual instrument. Block Diagram of a virtual Instrument

National Instruments DAQ Boards, National Instruments BNC Boards

General Instruments:

1 Telinstrument TI-5252 25 MHz Oscilloscope

2 Goldstar FG-2002C Function generators

1 Texas Instruments TMS320C2x EVM programmable DSP board with the appropriate software (TMS320 C and Assembly programming languages)

1 Piezo Systems Inc. KMA-005 Piezoelectric Motor/Actuator Kit

The Telinstrument TI-5252 25MHz Oscilloscope, The Goldstar FG-2002C Function Generator

Piezo Systems Inc. KMA-005 Piezoelectric , Motor/Actuator Training Kit

Computer Hardware/Software: