Material Laboratory
The Material Mechanics Laboratory is designed to characterize the mechanical properties of a variety of materials (such as biological and bio-artificial materials, rubber like materials, shape memory allows), using specialized testing equipment and standard testing methods.
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Testing equipments:
- MTS Insight System 10 kN (MTS System Corporation)
- Video Extensometer NG (Messphysic Material Testing)
- TestWorks4 software
- TA Instruments Electroforce (TestBenchSeries)
- TA Instruments 2D Digital Video Extensometer (DVE)
- Standard Testing methods
- Uniaxial Tensile Tests
- Peeling/Tear Tests
- Biaxial tensile test
Current testing activities
- Testing of Soft Biological Materials
- Uniaxial Tests of Human Aorta
- Uniaxial Tests of Pig Aorta
- Uniaxial Tests of Mouse Aorta
- Peeling Tests of Pig Aorta
- Uniaxial Tests of ABS/Elastomer Materials
- Testing of Rubber Materials
- Testing of Nitinol wires
- – Biaxial tensile test of pig aorta
- – Biaxial tensile test of human aorta
Main collaborations
- IRCCS San Matteo, Radiologia, Dott. R. Dore
- IRCCS San Matteo, Cardiochirurgia, Dott. A. Mazzola
Acknowledgements: the lab activities are kindly supported also by:
- European Research Council (ERC) through the ISOBIO project
- Cariplo Foundation through the project 2009-2822