Projects

NCAL's projects are designed to fulfill the mission of NCAL: to develop next-generation mechanical and physical measurement tools to generate data that will facilitate the US Auto Industry's incorporation of next-generation advanced lightweight materials into vehicles.

Each has benefited from an injection of $2.5 million in equipment acquisitions under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), including the Next-Generation Metal Formability Cruciform System and new High Rate Material Testing Facility.

Lightweighting Projects:

• Performance of Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Polymers
• Deformation and Fracture in Gen3 Steels
• Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Yield Surface Evolution
• Yield Surface Measurement
• Cruciform Multiaxial Mechanical Testing
• Marciniak Multiaxial Testing
• Tension-Compression Testing
• High Rate Testing
• X-ray Stress Measurement
• Neutron Stress Measurement
• Uniaxial Tension Beyond Necking