UAB School of Engineering
Alan W. Eberhardt
Engr Eberhardt, Alan

Associate Professor

Director, BME Undergraduate Program
Department of Biomedical Engineering

 

Experience

University of Alabama at Birmingham

2001 - Present

Director, BME Undergraduate Program


1999 – Present

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

1997 - 1999

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering


1991 - 1997

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Secondary Appointments

2000 UAB Center for Injury Sciences
1997 UAB Center for Metabolic Bone Disease
1995 UAB Department of Civil Engineering

Research Interest

Orthopaedic Biomechanics:
Biomechanics of injury to the pelvis and lower extremities
Soft tissue mechanics
Analytical and computational methods

Tribology of Biomaterials:
Polyethylene wear

Recent Publications

Sparks, D.R., Beason, D.P., Etheridge, B.S., Alonso, J.E., Eberhardt, A.W., “Contact measurements in the flexed hip joint under lateral trochanteric loading,” Journal of Orthopedic Research, 23, 2, pp. 359-366, 2005.

Etheridge, BS, Beason, DP, Lopez, R, Alonso, JE, Eberhardt, AW, “Effects of Trochanteric Soft Tissues and Bone Density on Fracture of the Female Pelvis in Experimental Side Impacts,” Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 33, 2, pp. 248-254, 2005.

Li, Z., Butala, N.B., Etheridge, B.S., Siegel, H.J., Lemons, J.E., Eberhardt, A.W., “A Biomechanical Study of Periacetabular Defects and Cement Filling,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 129, 2, pp. 129-135, 2007.

Li, Z., Etheridge, B.S., Kim, J.-E., Davidson, J., Alonso, J.E., Eberhardt, A.W., “Biomechanical Response of the Pubic Symphysis in Lateral Pelvic Impacts: A Finite Element Study,” Journal of Biomechanics 2007, 40(12), 2758-2766.

Wan C, Gilbert SR, Wang Y, Cao X, Shen X, Ramaswamy G, Jacobsen KA, Alaq ZS, Eberhardt AW, Gerstenfeld LC, Einhorn TA, Deng L, Clemens TL. “Activation of the hypoxia inducible factor-1α pathway accelerates bone regeneration,” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Jan 15;105(2):686-91.

Hill, M.R., Catledge, S.A., Konovalov, V., Clem, W.C., Chowdhury, S.A., Etheridge, B.S., Stanishevsky, A., Lemons, J.E., Vohra, Y.K., Eberhardt, A.W., “Preliminary Tribological Evaluation of Nanostructured Diamond Coatings and CoCr against Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene,” to appear in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Applied Biomaterials, 2008.

Chowdhury, S., Borham, J., Catledge, S.A., Eberhardt, A.W. Johnson, P.S., Vohra, Y.K., “Synthesis and mechanical wear studies of ultra smooth nanostructured diamond (USND) coatings deposited by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition with He/H2/CH4/N2 mixtures,” to appear in Diamond & Related Materials, 2008.

 

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Contact

UAB School of Engineering
HOEHN 368
1075 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4440
Phone: 205 934-8464
Fax: 205 975-4919
E-mail: aeberhar@uab.edu