The Materials Laboratory provides graduate students with the opportunity to use scanning electron microscopes, an environmental electron microscope (includes temperature stage up to 1000oC), a transmission electron microscope, an X-ray diffractometer, a metallographer with an image analyzer, an acoustic emission microscope, an ultrasonics microscope, an infrared microscope for remote temperature
measurements, optical microscopes, sample preparation facilities, and a DTA laboratory.

The mechanical testing facilities house Instron and Tinius-Olsen tensile testing machines, an impact testing machine, hardness testers, stress-rupture and creep testing facilities, an Instron high-rate testing system, an MTS four actuator mechanical testing system for biaxial testing, and an Instron two-actuator with environmental chamber, traveling microscope, and video recording unit.

The Materials Laboratory includes a metal casting laboratory, RF-generator plasma for ceramic sintering or processing, ceramics and metal joining laboratories, a polymer composites fabrication laboratory, heat treating laboratories, and rolling mills.

Department of Civil and Materials Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
2095 Engineering Research Facility
842 W. Taylor Street (M/C 246)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7023
For additional information, call or email:
David Lewis, Graduate Program Coordinator
E-mail:dlewis@uic.edu
Phone: 312/996-3411
Fax: 312/996-2426