SBCF Equipment
Bobcat Machine
Custom stretch breaking machine designed and fabricated at MSU to stretch break single tow carbon fibers.
SB2 Machine
Custom stretch breaking machine designed and fabricated by Hexcel under previous SBCF efforts. The machine is currently on loan to MSU from Albany Engineered Composites.
Composite Autoclave
ASC Process Systmes Econoclave® EC3X5
Knife Over Plate (KOP) Filmer
Filmer designed in house to manufacture thin resin film papers
CD6010 4-inch Research Combination Filmer & Prepreg Machine
Machine designed by Century Design Institute (CDI) to support the research, development and production of small, custom batches of films and prepregs
Belt Compactor
Reliant Elite M90 Fusing Machine used to compact DTP into prepreg
3D Printer
Intamsys FUNMAT HT desktop industrial high temperature 3D printer
Forming Fixtures
MSU has developed several unique fixtures and processes to quantitatively evaluate formability of composites under different conditions
Mechanical Testing Equipment
Instron machines including the 8802, 8501, 8872, 8511 and 8562 and several Mark-10 Universal Tests stands are used to complete mechanical testing of stretch broken and continuous carbon fiber composites.