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To support Frontier's internal and external research and development efforts, Frontier has developed extensive material processing capabilities to conduct material processing studies. Frontier material processing capabilities include:

• 16mm and 40mm twin screw extruder compounders for polymer modifications
• Various sizes of injection molding machines for prototype molding or ASTM specimen preparations
• Compression molding machine, filament winding, pultrusion, autoclave and vacuum transfer molding station for composite processing
• vacuum hot press and high temperature oven for ceramics processing

Frontier has established not only in-house material testing capability but also collaborations with Army's ARDEC and NSRDEC, Navy's MARCOM and NAVSEA, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Steven Instittue of Technolgy (SIT) to allow Frontier's scientists to access their advanced analytical equipments to expand its testing and characterization capability. 

• Static and quasi-static tensile testing capability up to 600 inches per minute and temperature from -200 to 450F
• Servo-hydraulic tensile tester for fatigue study
• Perkins Elmer DSC-7 and DMA-7 thermal analyzer
• High power optical microscopy with film and video camera
• Temperature-humidity chamber for environmental study
• SEM, TEM, AFM, small and wide angle X-ray for material characterization

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