Activities and Capabilities

Activities

Design and additive manufacture

• Design of medical devices
• Design of surgical instruments
• Generative design
• Development of design frameworks
• Development of novel manufacturing techniques

Computational modelling

• Computational biomechanics
• Computational modelling of medical devices
• Computational modelling of connective tissues

Experimental testing

• Mechanical testing of natural and synthetic biomaterials
• Mechanical testing of medical devices
• Gait analysis
• Wetting phenomena and anti-biofouling surfaces

Our capabilities

• Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, which has a class II containment area
• Materials testing machines
• Single-station spine simulator
• Pulse Duplicator
• A range of additive manufacturing platforms; extrusion bioprinting, DLP bioprinting, fused deposition modelling
• Hydrogel formulation equipment
• Desktop 3D scanner
• Gait analysis facility (camera-based motion capture system, force plates, EMG and wearable sensors)
• Computer aided design software
• Computational modelling software