Founded:
Full Time: 3
Part Time: 0
Budget: 520,000.00
Director: (vancant)
P.O. Box 44172, 241 East Lewis Street
Lafayette, LA 70504-4172
Telephone: 318/482-6767 FAX: 318/262-5472 E-Mail: hsiung@usl.edu
Website:http://engr.usl.edu/prl/
Research Areas:
The Center for Plastics, Composites & Polymers, (CP) squared, provides technical assistance to LA companies involved in injection mold design & manufacturing of plastic components:
1. Assistance is offered in company & product development as well as material testing for the plastics industry.
2. Equipment specification, facility layout, training, installation, start-up & troubleshooting are a few of the offered services.
3. Products can be developed & designed from conception to full production including solid modeling, flow and cooling analysis.
Areas of Expertise:
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
Polymer materials testing & evaluation lab
Injection molding production lab
Computer-Aided Design & Analysis
Computer simulation of the injection molding process
Research Equipment:
Arburg injection molding machine with auxiliary equipment, bekum extrusion blow molding machine, killion extruder with auxilliary equipment
TA Instruments DSC, DMA & TMA with auxiliary equipment
Q-Test UTM with fixtures
Kayeness rheometer.
Polymer Structure Imaging System
Keywords:
1016004 Technology Transfer
0607029 Computer-Aided Design
0609027 Manufacturing (Mechanical Engineering)
0901072 Training & Development
0606019 Materials Testing
1003039 Polymer Chemistry
1003037 Thermal Analysis
1009008 Polymetric Materials
0605016 Process Simulation & Control