Ice Research Lab: Facilities

Special facilities exist for studying the structure and properties of ice. These include:

• 8 cold-rooms for growing and characterizing ice
• uniaxial servo-hydraulic MTS testing machine (450 kN) supported by computer-based data acquisition
• true multiaxial testing system capable of providing loads of 1 MN along 3-mutually perpendicular directions, also supported by computer-based data acquisition
• in-pond servohydraulic compression frame (4 MN)
• high-speed (10,000 frames/sec) camera
• environmental scanning electron microscope with cold-stage, straining stage and electron back-scattered diffraction
• scanning force microscope and scanning/tunneling microscope
• x-ray diffractometer
• Micro CT Xray tomograph
• transmission electron microscope
• ice friction devices
• Rigsby stage
• machine shop in cold-room