Laboratories

Dr. Sadhu's Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Smart Cities and Communities (SCC) laboratories consist of a wide range of relevant equipment for interdiscplinary research:

i) Actuators 

  1. Shake table and Vibration Control System (APS Dynamics)
  2. 6-DOF Shaker or Hexapod (Quanser)

ii) Data acquisition system (DAQ)

  1. Multi-channel low- and high-frequency data acquisition system (Data Translation)
  2. High-rate acoustic emission data acquisition systems (Techmatron)
  3. Compact-DAQ system (National Instruments)

 

iii) Contact sensors

  1. Low frequency high sensitive accelerators (PCB Electronics) for ambient vibration monitoring
  2. Low sensitive high-frequency accelerometers (PCB Electronics) for machine condition monitoring
  3. Wireless accelerometers (Civionics)
  4. Wireless LVDTs and strain gauges (Hoskin Scientific)
  5. Acoustic emission sensors (Vallen and Physical Acoustics)

 

iv) Noncontact sensors

  1. Grasshopper3 Camera (Edmund optics)
  2. High speed camera, recorder and DIC system (Deltaphotonics)
  3. Ladybug 360 degree spherical camera (TeleDyne)
  4. Thermal camera (Flir)
  5. Augmented reality glass (Microsoft Hololens 2)
  6. Quest virtual reality glass
  7. Lidar (Hovermap and Velodyn)

 

v) Mobile sensing platform

  1. Matrice 300 RTK Drone (DJI), P1 Camera and L1 lidar
  2. Mavic Mini drone
  3. Jackal Unmanned Ground Vehicle (Clearpath Robotics)
  4. Mobile robotic sensor

 

vi) High performance computing

  1. GPUs with NVIDIA Quadro
  2. High computing server