The Wadley Lab group received notification of DOD approval to construct a $800,000 high temperature, high water vapor pressure laser gradient test facility as part of
the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The new instrumentation will enable the University of Virginia researchers to recreate the thermal, environmental and mechanical loading conditions within future ceramic gas turbine engines.
According to DOD
press release, the highly competitive program received over 695 proposals for support from a wide range of advanced engineering areas:
"The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program supports state of the
art equipment that augments current university capabilities or develops
new capabilities to perform cutting edge defense research and associated
graduate student research training.... This includes
research that underpins advances in materials, structures, and
manufacturing science; quantum and nanosciences; computing and networks;
electronics, electromagnetics, electro optics; acoustics; neuroscience;
fluid dynamics; robotics and autonomous systems; and ocean,
environmental, and life sciences and engineering."
According to DOD press release, the highly competitive program received over 695 proposals for support from a wide range of advanced engineering areas: