Project Biopulse

This is project Biopulse, where our Senior Design Group created a Split Hopkinson Bar (SPHB). A Split Hopkinson Bar is a material testing device that is used to find the mechanical response of different materials. The special thing about this device is that it has high and dynamic strain rate loading, opposed to the rest of the devices on campus which are not both. This device allows us to properly represent car crashes, ballistic impacts, or impacts that a football player would undergo. The novelty of this device is that it is smaller in size and cost compared to other SPHBs on the market or at other schools, giving our device affordability and portability. The motivation behind this project is to increase the teaching capabilities on campus here at Florida Institute of Technology by providing them their first high dynamic material testing device. This project is supported by our backgrounds in bioinstrumentation, biomechanics, circuits, and maker’s courses here at FIT.