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Labs in Advanced Manufacturing and Production Systems (AMPS)

The group has access to a number of Laboratory facilities both within the ANU and externally.

• Advanced Systems Laboratory
• Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory
• Materials Processing Laboratory
• Manufacturing Workshop
• Computational Engineering Laboratory
• Advanced Materials Laboratory
• VCAMM Laboratory Facilities
• Ford Stamping Plant Geelong

Advanced Systems Laboratory

This laboratory was established in 2003 with funding from the ARC LIEF scheme and the ANU MEC scheme. It contains the following:

• 30 tonne hydraulic press with computer data logging and control and heated dies

Instrumented 30 tonne press

• Faro arm surface laser scanning system with Polyworks surface reconstruction software
• Aramis non contact strain measurement system

Aramis System

Faro Arm

• PHI heated platten press
• Instron 4505 tensile testing machine
• Harrison Lathe with tool force monitoring system

Harrison Instrumented Lathe

Instron 4505

Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory

• Sabre 700 3 axis Cincinnatti Milacron CNC milling machine

Manufacturing Workshop

• Milling machine
• Lathe
• Tig Welding

 Manufacturing Workshop

 

 

Materials Processing Laboratory

• HAAKE Polylab System extrusion machine

Polylab Extruder

Computational Engineering Laboratory

• 6 Xeon Dell workstations
• Hypermesh pre processing software
• LS Dyna Simulation software
• Access to APAC SGI supercomputer with ABAQUS and Fluent software

Advanced Materials Laboratory

• Web processing pre preg machine
• Impact tester

Impact Tester

American Autoclave

VCAMM

The group has access to the extensive facilities available at the Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing in Geelong. These facilities include:

• Quickstep composite curing system
• Ericson form test machine
• MTS fatigue testing machine

Ford Stamping Plant

The group has access to stamping presses, assembly facilities, materials and testing equipment at Ford Geelong stamping plant. Many projects undertake plant based experimentation using this equipment which includes:

• 400 tonne mechanical press lines

 

 

 

 

 

 

• 250 tonne mechanical press lines
• Robotic assembly facilities

 

 

 

 

 

 

• CMM measurement facilities.