Lab facilities: (www.bygg.ntnu.no/ktek/simlab/)
Material testing:

• Experimental matrix for tension, plane-strain tension, through-thickness compression and shear testing together with analytical-numerical procedures for parameter identification
• Optical field measurement with Digital Image Correlation (under development)
• A Split Hopkinson tension bar available at NTNU for characterisation of materials under high strain rates, partly used with a high-speed camera
• Bi-axial machine with a possibility of using hollow-cylindrical specimen subjected to tension/compression, torsion, and inner pressure
• Servohydraulic test frames ranging from 50 kN to 2 MN
• Access to a 600 kN hydraulic universal testing machine with tooling for deep drawing, bulge testing, square-cup drawing, determination of forming limit diagrams according to Nakajima and Marciniak fully controlled by a personal computer
• Access to high speed cameras (up to 5400 fps at 1 Mpixel resolution)

Component and structure testing:

• Access to a gas canon and a kicking machine via SIMLab; both machines are unique facilities
• Gas-canon: small masses (20-200 gr) can be accelerated up to high speeds of about 1 km/s
• Kicking machine: large masses at moderate speeds such as in low-speed car collision
• Access to generic profile forming (hydroforming, stretch bending) facilities together with a virtual-optical laboratory for shape reconstruction via NTNU
• Self-piercing riveting machine

Numerical facilities:

• LINUX cluster with 16 nodes
• Access to a part of NTNU’s supercomputer via the NOTUR project
• Academic licenses for LS-DYNA available via LSTC and ERAB for use in basic research projects in alliance with NTNU
• Commercial licences for ABAQUS
• Access to softwares for post- and pre-processing of finite element analyses (PATRAN, TrueGrid …)

For more information, please contact: Team leader Odd-Geir Lademo