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Alberts
Biomechanics LLC is a mechanical testing and consulting firm
specializing in orthopaedic applications.
We perform
tests to measure the "viscoelastic" or time-dependent
mechanical properties of cartilage and tissue engineered materials and
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What
does that mean? Tissue engineering is the process of
trying to develop healty functional human tissues from
man-made or human processed materials. In the future,
it may provide a way to replace damaged, diseased or missing
cartilage and bone with functional material grown from the
patient's own cells. The viscoelastic tests we perform
on cartilage and tissue engineered materials are important
because cartilage is a structural material, and to function
property in the body it must have the right time-dependent
mechanical properties. Our viscoelastic tests tell
tissue engineers how well their materials are performing
mechanically.
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Viscoelastic Properties of Cartilage and Tissue Engineered
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How
do you do these “viscoelastic test”?
We
primarily do indentation tests based on the biphasic theory of
cartilage. Biphasic indentation tests have a number
of advantages over other methods of measuring the
mechanical properties of cartilage.
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What
else do we do?
Consulting,
design, set-up, planning for all sort of mechanical tests of
orthopaedic and maxillo-facial medical devices.
We have years of experience in testing spinal devices,
acrylic bone cement and other skeletal implants and in doing
wear and fatigue tests of knee implants and spinal implants.
Explore our website and discover some of the things we
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We can apply
years of experience and expertise for problem solving, testing
design and set-up, and general consulting of:
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An instrumented four-platform adjustable
staircase designed for the Montion Analysis Laboratory at the University
of Nebraska Medical Center.
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