GAUS labs have various equipments mainly intended for acoustics and vibration measurements, with corresponding acquisition systems and electronics. You will find below a succinct and non-exhaustive list of the GAUS equipments :
Vibration
- Scanning laser vibrometer, 1D up to 1MHz, 3D up to 1MHz
- Various force sensors and accelerometers (monoaxial and triaxial), impedance heads
- Electrodynamic shakers (force excitation up to 100 lbf )
- Impact hammers
- Vibration calibrators
Acoustics
- Various measurement microphones (1/2″, 1/4″, high pressure levels, surface microphones)
- 196 microphones B&K array, and 96 microphones custom built array
- Impedance tubes
- Acoustic manikin with various pinnae, binaural microphone
- Various acoustic sources (including omnidirectionnal)
- Sound level meters and intensity probes
- Acoustic pressure calibrators
Ultrasound
- Phased array facilities (Omniscan MX-16:64)
- High voltage ultrasonic amplifier (ProduitSon)
- Contact probes
Acquisition
- B&K Pulse systems, up to 196 channels
- NI PXI 32 Inputs/32 Outputs (100 MHz)
- Custom built systems from 8 to 96 channels, using high-end audio components
- OPAL-RT stations for control simulation and prototyping
- LMS TestLab 8 channels
- Head acoustics SQuadriga II 6 channels
- Various signal generators, oscilloscopes and 2-channel FFT analyzers
Other equipments
- Laser micromachining system
- Various specific softwares for finite element analysis, vibroacoustic modelling, sound quality analysis (VAOne, FEMAP, NASTRAN, Artemis…)
- Access to Mammouth supercomputer
- Tools, materials and electronics for piezoelectric sensors/actuators development
- X-ray microtomograph
- Environmental chamber
- 3D optical digitizer