Earth Science: Facilities and Equipment

Geoscience Facilities and Equipment

• High-pressure thermal/mechanical properties laboratory
• Environmentally controlled creep laboratory
• Laser scanning confocal microscopy laboratory
• Kolsky/Hopkinson bar for high strain-rate testing
• Acoustic emission/sonic velocity measurements
• Helium mass spectrometer permeability system
• Yucca Mountain Program (YMP)
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
• Forty-eight-channel field seismograph and geophones
• Accelerated weight drop source
• Downhole seismic sources and receivers
• Electrical/mechanical laboratory
• Field experiment staging area
• Ground penetrating radar unit, time-domain electromagnetic field equipment
• Field truck and with mobile laboratory space
• Geomechanics Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories Facilities and Equipment

Sandia adopts new agreement forms to allow universities/industry to use facilities (learn more).

• National Solar Thermal Test Facility
• Combustion Research Facility
• Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
• Photovoltaic Labs
• Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC)
• Joint BioEnergy Institute
• MESA Complex
• Advanced Simulation and Computing at Sandia
• Pulsed Power Technology
• Validation and Qualification Sciences Experimental Complex
• Aerial Cable Site
• Burn Site Facility
• Centrifuge/Superfuge
• Drop Tower
• Instrumentation
• Mechanical Shock
• Mobile Laser Tracker
• Photometrics
• Rocket Sled Track
• Thermal Test Complex
• Water Impact