Equipment
The NSF Engineering Lab hosts a variety of customized test chambers, mechanical and electrical equipment for analyzing data, with both computerized and video recording capacity:
- Torsion test fixture
- Calcium monitor
- Dielectric analyzers
- Sound meters and calibrators
- Vibration monitors
- Air velocity meters
- Photometers
- Tensile test machine
- Brittleness tester
- Pent tester
- Transformers
- Izod impact tester
- DSC differential scanning calorimeter
- FT-IR spectrometer
- Abrasion tester
- Deflection temperature tester
- Melt flow index test machine
- Flow-through thermocyclic test machine
- IPT electronic bore gage
- Laser extensometer
- Multi-product calibrator
- Compression molder
- Video microscope
- Oscilloscope fluke electrical
- Optical comparator
- Microscope PC
Test Rigs and Chambers
- Thermocyclic test rig
- Singleton salt fog test cabinet
- Lathe
- Dishwasher test rig
- Fusion weld system for PE pipe testing
- Walk-in temperature test chamber
- Vacuum oven
- Chemical resistant oven
- IPT test chambers (pressure testing of pipe)
- Faucet test machine
- Backflow preventer test rig
- Water hammer arrester test machine
- TUP impact tester
- Impulse test rig
- Inline UV transmittance monitor
- High flow flow-meters and pumps
- Water chemistry analytical instruments
For more information about the NSF Engineering lab, email physlab@nsf.org.