Laboratory of Polymeric Bearing Modeling, Characterization, and Simulation

9871943聚合物轴承建模、表征和仿真拉伯格实验室该研究项目将在南卡罗来纳州建立一个专注于聚合物轴承摩擦学性能的合作科学和技术研究实验室。该实验室是在南卡罗来纳州生物工程联盟的赞助下由克莱姆森大学和南卡罗来纳州医科大学联合开发的。它将研究在传统轴承和整形外科轴承中观察到的聚合物磨损。在24个月的授权期内，将在咨询委员会的指导下，通过实验室调查人员之间的团队合作，对控制聚合物轴承表面性能的机械、化学和生物物理过程有更基本的了解。这一重大的研发问题将在计算建模和实验的微观和宏观尺度上加以解决。通过与工业咨询委员会成员保持密切合作和沟通，所开发的模型和实验分析和测试方法将向工业界销售。项目成果将被应用于聚合物磨损的分析和现有人工关节以及替代轴承材料的临床发生预测。该实验室开发的分析和实验能力还将扩展到其他聚合物轴承应用和材料的研究，如汽车和纺织行业中常用的那些，每一种都代表着南卡罗来纳州经济的重要部分。这个独特的实验室的长期目标是提供预测聚合物磨损临床发生所需的先进研究工具。

9871943 LaBerge Laboratory of Polymeric Bearing Modeling, Characterization, and Simulation This research project will establish a Cooperative Science and Technology Research Laboratory within the State of South Carolina focused on the tribological performance of polymeric bearings. The Laboratory is being developed jointly at Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina under the auspices of the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina. It will study polymeric wear observed in conventional and orthopedic bearings. Within the 24-month award period a more fundamental understanding of the mechanical, chemical and biological physical processes, which control the performance of polymeric bearing surfaces, will be developed through team work between the investigators of the Laboratory under the guidance of an advisory board. This significant R&D problem will be addressed at the microscopic and macroscopic scales for both for computational modeling and experiments. By maintaining a close collaboration and communication with the members of an industrial advisory board, the models and experimental analysis and testing methodology developed will be marketed to the industrial sector. Project results will be applied to analysis of polymeric wear and to the prediction of its clinical occurrence with existing artificial joints, as well as with alternative bearing materials. The analysis and experimental capabilities developed in this Laboratory will also be extended to the study of other polymeric bearing applications and materials such as those commonly utilized in the automotive and textile industries, each of which represent significant segments of the economy in the State of South Carolina. The long term goal of this unique Laboratory is to provide advanced investigational tools necessary to predict the clinical occurrence of polymeric wear.