LoadTrac II / FlowTrac II fully automated triaxial testing system for advanced geotechnical characterization of soils and granular materials under controlled stress-path loading conditions. Supports UU, CU, CD, permeability, and custom stress-path testing with automated control of loading, confining pressure, drainage, and pore pressure.

Geocomp ShearTrac II fully automated direct/residual shear testing system for characterization of soil and granular material behavior under controlled vertical and horizontal loading conditions. The system supports direct shear, residual shear, consolidation, and direct simple shear testing with high-precision micro-stepper control, automated data acquisition, and programmable stress or displacement loading paths.

The 3D Printing Laboratory is located within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at FIU under the PIs’ responsibility. The laboratory houses multiple advanced additive manufacturing systems, including Formlabs stereolithography (SLA) printers, a CureBox post-processing system, and a Sintratec selective laser sintering (SLS) printer for polymer-based fabrication. The facility supports rapid prototyping and fabrication of complex particle geometries, lattice structures, and micromechanical morphologies for granular mechanics and metamaterial research. The SLA systems provide high-resolution fabrication with layer thicknesses down to 25 microns and high geometric accuracy, enabling production of intricate 1D, 2D, and 3D experimental specimens with controlled microstructural architectures.

Polyga HDI Compact C504 monochrome structured-light 3D scanner for ultra-high-resolution non-contact digitization of small objects and particle geometries. The system captures up to 5 million measurement points per scan with accuracy up to 6 microns, enabling detailed reconstruction and quantitative characterization of complex 3D particle morphology, surface texture, and microstructural features for granular mechanics research and advanced particle characterization.

Digital image correlation (DIC) experimental setup used for full-field deformation measurement and high-resolution displacement tracking. The system integrates a Deben MICROTEST 200 N mechanical testing module with a high-resolution imaging system for real-time observation of specimen deformation. Captured images are processed using DIC techniques to quantify displacement and strain evolution during mechanical loading.

Dell Pro Max systems equipped with dual NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchips provide a compact desktop-scale high-performance computing platform for AI training, scientific computing, and accelerated simulation. The interconnected dual-unit configuration delivers 256 GB unified system memory and high-bandwidth GPU acceleration optimized for large-scale AI models, physics-informed machine learning, GPU-accelerated numerical simulations, and next-generation computational mechanics research.