Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders

• Research Cores
• Biomechanics
• User Tutorials

Core Resources

Learning Lunches

• May 17th, 2023 - Tracking Motions of Humans and Animals with Markerless Technology
• July 6th, 2022 — Biomechanical Testing of Soft Tissues: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
• November 5th, 2021— Biomedical Applications of Metal Additive Manufacturing
• February 26^th, 2021 — New Bruker AFM addition and Optics11 nanoindenters overview!
• September 18^th, 2020 — Core Overview, Covid Guidelines, and Indentation Testing
• December 13^th, 2019 — Fundamental Assays to Evaluate Bone Mechanical Properties 
• September 27^th, 2019 — Techniques to Assess Cartilage Compressive and Tensile Mechanical Response
• June 14^th, 2019 — Comprehensively Assessing the Quasi-Static, Viscoelastic, and Fatigue Mechanical Response of Tendon Tissue 
• February 15^th, 2019 — Core Overview and Fundamentals & Theory of Mechanically Testing Biological Tissue
• June 6^th, 2018 — Testing Bone in Torsion/Dynamic Polarized Light Imaging of Collagen Fibers in Conjunction with Uniaxial Testing 
• April 4^th, 2018 (Compression/Indentation & Bending) — Fundamentals of Compression, Indentation, and Bending Tests of Biological Tissue
• November 30^th, 2017 — Fundamentals for Mechanical Characterization of Soft Tissue 

Commonly Used Assays

• Uniaxial Testing

• Three and Four Point Bending

• Cartilage Testing