Our Facilities

CIMSS has 6,000 square feet in Durham Hall for administrative, educational, and technical activities.  Examples of the state-of-the-art equipment available at CIMSS include:

	HP 4194 Impedance/Gain-Phase Analyzer: used to perform a wide variety of impedance and transmission measurements.  This equipment has been used to study and quantify the electromechanical coupling in the actuator and sensor components of smart material systems.  CIMSS also possesses an HP 4192-A impedance analyzer.
	Zonic WCA Signal Analyzer: especially useful for experimental dynamic and acoustic structural analysis.
	HP 3314-A Function Generator: a multi-mode, programmable function generator featuring Sine, Triangle, and Squarewave functions from 1 MHz to 20 MHz.
	Three SIGLAB Dynamic Signal and System Analyzers : portable, MATLAB-based system for Noise/Vibration analysis, Modal Analysis and Control System design.  Results are viewed in real-time using MATLAB's graphics visualization capabilities.
	Polytec PI Laser-Doppler Vibrometer: allows non-contact measurement of displacement and velocity.  In addition, complete modal testing facilities are available on a variety of platforms.
	Toyota test stand for testing damping treatments on panels (Shared with the Advance Vehicle Dynamics Lab.)
	Tenneystrat 36ST: A 36-cubic-foot chamber capable of simulating altitudes of up to 100,100 feet or temperatures between -70C and 177C.  Data ports allow transmission of signals through walls under any of these conditions.
	Several D-space controller and other digital control systems: allows the use of MATLAB  to drive experiments.