Manufacturing

Formlabs Form3+ / Form3B+

The Form3+ and Form3B+ employ low force stereolithography additive manufacturing to produce high quality polymer parts. The Form3B+ is the medical line that can print with biocompatible materials.

Operated by MIRAGE and the Fischell Institute:

    • 3x Form3+ printers with quick release platforms
    • 1x Form3B+ printer
    • 3x Form Wash automated wash stations
    • 3x Form Cure automated cure stations

https://formlabs.com/3d-printers/form-3/

3D Systems ProX 200

The ProX 200 is a production grade metal printer that leverages direct metal laser sintering (DMLS).

Operated by Terrapin Works.

    • Material: Ni-Alloy IN625

https://terrapinworks.umd.edu/equipment/3d-systems-prox-200

Creality CR6-SE

The CR6-SE is a consumer level fused deposition modeling (FDM) polymer printer. We use it to prototype, print jigs and guides for the rest of the lab.

Operated by MIRAGE.

https://www.creality.com/products/cr-6-se-3d-printer

Metrology

  • Hexagon Absolute Arm
  • Zeiss scanner
  • Custom Structured Light Scanner
  • 2D scanner
  • Photogrammetry Rig (DSLR)
  • Photogrammetry Rig (RPi)
  • Telecentric Camera
  • High speed camera
  • Optical Table

Computational

Lab Workstations

MIRAGE currently operates two workstations locally.

Dell Precision 7875:

    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX (128 MB cache, 24 cores, 48 threads)
    • Nvidia RTX A6000 (48 GB)
    • 128 GB RAM (4×32 DDR5-4800)

Dell Precision 7960:

    • Intel Xeon W5-3435X(45 MB cache, 16 cores, 32 threads)
    • Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada (20 GB)
    • 256 GB RAM (4×64 DDR5-5600)

Zaratan HPC

MIRAGE has access to run jobs on Zaratan, UMD’s high-performance computer (HPC). As of November 2024, Zaratan is roughly in the top 300 largest HPC clusters in the world (according to Top 500).

Managed by the Division of Information Technology:

    • ~3.5 PFLOPS theoretical peak performance
    • 386 compute nodes
      • 2x AMD 7763 64-core CPUs each
      • 512 GB per node
    • 20 GPU nodes
      • 4x Nvidia A100 (40 GB) GPUs each

https://hpcc.umd.edu/hpcc/zaratan.html

    Other

    MTS Acumen 3AT

    MTS Acumen Electrodynamic Test System with both axial and torsional test capabilities.

    Operated by Fischell Institute.

    • Axial: 3kN dynamic test force (2kN static)
    • Torsional: 30Nm dynamic torque (21Nm static)

    https://www.mts.com/en/products/materials/dynamic-materials-test-systems/acumen-electrodynamic

    GOM Aramis

    GOM (purchased by Zeiss) Aramis 3D motion tracking system uses stereovision for 3D digital image correlation (DIC).

    Operated by Fischell Institute.

    https://www.zeiss.com/metrology/en/systems/optical-3d/3d-testing/aramis-adjustable.html

    Terrapin Works

    Terrapin Works is a predominantly student run organization at UMD that provides additive and subtractive manufacturing resources. Many additional pieces of equipment are available through Terrapin Works.

    https://terrapinworks.umd.edu/equipment

    Fischell Institute

    The REF Institute for Biomedical Devices is a collaborative space for scientists and engineers to collaborate and develop improvements to current health systems. They also host a variety of manufacturing and measurement equipment.

    https://fischellinstitute.umd.edu/instruments