Facilities

Laboratory:

• Injury and Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory (1500 sq. ft)
• Structural Biomechanics Laboratory (1200 sq. ft)
• Tissue Preparation Laboratory (500 sq. ft)
• Walk-in Freezer (300 sq. ft)

Computation:

• 6 Terabyte RAID file server with LT03 nightly backup
• 64 bit, 4 node, 12 processor Beowulf Compute Cluster
• access to an additional 30 node Beowolf Cluster
• 2 dual processor, dual display visualization workstations
• Altair HyperWorks
• MADYMO
• LS-DYNA, LS-Prepost,  LS-Opt
• ABAQUS
• ProE
• AMIRA
• ImageExpress
• Geomagic

Equipment:

• MTS FlexTest GT servo-hydraulic control systems
• 10,000 lb load frame with a 60 cm stroke highspeed hydraulic actuator
• 110,000 lb Load frame with a 10 cm stroke actuator
• High speed servo-hydraulic torsion actuator
• 20 GPM 3000 psi hydraulic power supply
• Bose ElectroForce 3200
• Five meter head and neck impact drop track
• Kodak EktaPro EM-2 1000 frame/second digital video system
• 3 camera, 10,000 fps Phantom digital video system
• Pulnix high-resolution digital video system
• Olympus IX70 Inverted System Microscope
• Instrumented pure bending flexibility test frame
• Seven 16 channel digital data acquisition systems running Labview 8.2
• Impact pendulum