The Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering has received approximately €1.5 m worth of investments in testing equipment since 2000. Some of the more significant items of equipment are listed below;
Silicon Graphics Dedicated High Performance Computing (HPC) resource
M.T.S. Tytron Micro fatigue testing machine
Olympus IX 71 Epifluorescent Inverted Research Microscope
High strain rate testing machine.
Zwick Single column and Twin column Universal testing machines
Lenton Thermal Design High Temperature Sintering furnace
Selection of Inverted and Upright Microscopes
Leica Stereoscopic microscope
8 C02 controlled Water Jacketed Incubators
EQUIPMENT BOOKING
For enquiries regarding equipment in TCD please contact Robert Dunbar (dunbarro@tcd.ie) or Simon Carroll (scarrol6@tcd.ie).
Below is a link to equipment available for booking. Please use an email address when making booking and indicate whether it is a final year project (FYP), MSc Biomedical Engineering (MSc) or research (RES) related project. This is necessary to aid us perform audits of usage. Example: FYP-user@institute.ie MSc-user@institute.ie RES-user@institute.ie
Equipment
TCBE Zwicks Location: Parson's building, room 0.01D. Contact: Robert Dunbar (dunbarro@tcd.ie). NOTE: Please indicate if you are using Zwick 1 or Zwick 2 or both on the calendar
COMSOL Multiphysics Location: Mech Eng, Parsons Building NOTE: All users must register with Conor Buckley before use
Freezedry Location: TCBE, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute- Biomaterials Lab (L3.30) NOTE: Users are restricted to pre-booking a maximum of 48hrs in a given week. If it the machine is available 24hrs before, you may re-book in that week.
Micro-CT Location: Mech Eng, Parsons Building- Microscopy Lab NOTE: All users must contact Robert Dunbar before using this equipment
Parsons_Zwick Location: Mech Eng, Parsons Building- Tissue Testing Lab NOTE: This equipment is primarily reserved for teaching laboratories and undergraduate students
Instron Location: Mech Eng, Parsons Building- Tissue Testing Lab NOTE: All users must contact Robert Dunbar before using this equipment
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