The laboratory consists of a wet lab, a dedicated space for live subject evaluations, and computational resources for modeling. The wet lab (2326 square feet) contains equipment for specimen dissection and preparation, mechanical testing, and tissue culture. A dedicated room is located within the department containing a high-low electric therapy treatment table and an ultrasound shear wave elastography equipment for the evaluation of human subjects.  

Equipment

SuperSonic Imagine

Mechanical Tester MACH-1

Six-Degree of Freedom Shoulder Fixture

Spinal Mouse

Microscriber 3D-Digitizer

MTS Minibionix II

Digital Image Correlation System

Dexa

Tekscan – Pressure sensors

Softwares

High-end computing desktops exist within the laboratory in addition to computational facilities, including high-performance computing (HPC), equipped with software for finite element analysis, image processing, statistical analysis, and Matlab.

  1. Ansys
  2. Mimics – Materialize
  3. Abaqus
  4. Matlab