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
Biomechanical and FE studies: support from project design to publication 
Radiograph of distal femur with two plates for epiphysiodesis, superimposed with illustration of the resulting strains in one of the deformed screws during management of leg length discrepancy in children and adolescents 
Two-leg alternate loading pelvic model 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
