Biomechanical testing and modelling
Biomechanical modeling, testing and prototyping to find optimal solutions to clinical questions
Study design
- Customized experimental model development to answer a wide range of research questions
Biomechanical testing
State of the art test equipment
- Servo hydraulic test machines
- Electro dynamic test machines
- Electro mechanical test machines
- X-ray, video, and motion tracking analyses
- Tailored test setups
- Advanced testing protocols using in vivo recorded load patterns
Computer aided design / Finite elements analysis
Design, testing, and analysis of implants, instruments, prostheses, and bone-implant constructions
Prototyping
- Well equipped prototype workshop
- Milling, turning, wire cutting electrical discharge machining (EDM), and surface finishing
- Production of high quality instruments, test rigs, and prototype implants
Preparation rooms
- Well equipped anatomy laboratories for specimen preparation, instrumentation, and embedding
- Testing on a variety of human and animal cadaveric bones
Qualifications
- Multidisciplinary team (engineers, physicists, technicians, medical fellows)
- Highly trained polymechanics for computer numeric control (CNC) machines
Certification
Contact
Ulrich Bentz
AO Research Institute Davos
Clavadelerstrasse 8
7270 Davos Platz
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 81 414 23 26
www.aofoundation.org/crd