At the core of the group are three state of the art laboratories, a cadaver lab, additive manufacturing lab, and x-ray microscopy lab. The laboratories uses high-tech equipment listed below:
- Universal testing machines: used for mechanical testing of engineering and biological materials
-Screw-driven Instron 5565 - for uniaxial (compression or tension) quasi-static tests
-Servo-hydraulic Instron 8874 - for dual axis (compression or tension, and torsion) quasi-static, dynamic or cyclic tests
- Biological testing equipment
-Perfusion bioreactor equipped with peristaltic pump - for dynamic in-vitro cell or ex-vivo tissue culturing
-Optical microscope -
Biomechanics testing equipment
-KUKA Robot
-Knee Kinematics Rig
-Knee Extension Rig
-Shoulder Wear Simulator
-Optical Tracking Camera Vega
-Optical Tracking Camera Certus -
Additive manufacturing
-Powder bed fusion systems (Renishaw plc., UK) equipped with CP-Titanium Grade 2, Ti-6Al-4V or Stainless Steel 316L powders -
Imaging
-3D digital microscope (Hirox, Japan)
Contact us
The Biomechanics Group
Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
City & Guilds Building
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
+44 (0) 20 7589 5111