Staff Profile

Information for Potential Collaborators and PhD Students

I would be very happy to hear from anyone with ideas or problems needing solutions: surgeons, engineers, potential PhD students and companies seeking advice.

If you are an international student looking for a PhD supervisor then I would be happy to consider you as long as you have access to full funding (fees and living expenses etc.).

About me

A chartered mechanical engineer with research speciality in bio-tribology (wear, friction, lubrication, materials science, corrosion) of artificial replacement joints for the body, biomechanics, biocompatibility, surface micro topography and mechanical failure analysis (forensic engineering). Interested in materials selection for bearing longevity and corrosion of implants, particularly spinal fusion devices and hip, knee, shoulder, and ankle replacements. In addition, has interest in the implant-bone interface and how to improve that long-term fixation. Also has interests in cell behaviour at the implant-surface interface and cell behaviour under fluid flow conditions in the natural intervertebral disc. Most of these projects have significant industrial cooperation.

Area of expertise: orthopaedic devices, medical implants (hip, knee, spine), PMMA cement, ISO testing, lab equipment design

Qualifications

BEng (Hons), Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of Leeds

Chartered Mechanical Engineer (CEng MIMechE)

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Memberships & Activity

Member of the EPSRC Associate Peer Review College

Student Mentoring coordinator for Mechanical Engineering

Member of the SAgE Faculty Research & Ethics Committee

Member of the Technical Support committee (Stephenson)

Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE)

Journal referee for journals Tribology and Engineering in Medicine 

Internal and external PhD viva examiner 

Current funding:

£79,147 EPSRC studentship, National Productivity Investment Fund (Ref: EP/R512588/1)); £77,272 EPSRC DTP 2016-2017 award (Ref: EP/N509528/1); £2,500 MeDe* Innovation ECR secondment funding (*an EPSRC centre for innovative manufacturing in medical devices); £25,000 CASE award by Jointmedica Ltd, Worcester, UK; £25,000 CASE award by ZimmerBiomet Ltd, Bridgend, UK; A fully-funded international PhD studentship (~£17k p.a.); In-kind support for materials and conferences from Invibio Biomaterials Ltd and Fisher Paykel Ltd

Areas of interest:

·         Tribology (wear, friction, lubrication) of replacement artificial joints

·         Bio-compatibility of wear debris and particulates in vivo

·         The effects of frictional torque and how this is related to lubrication and wear

·         Corrosion of implanted devices

·         Explant failures and characterisation

·         Materials selection for replacement joint bearings longevity (UHMWPE, PEEK, CoCr etc)

·         Cell-surface interactions and surface topography, surface patterning, cells in flows

·         Cement-to-bone loosening in hip and other cemented implants

·         Design and testing of replacement joints such as 'surface replacement' hips

Currently supervising four PhD students and co-supervising a further four PhD students:

• Kathryn Chamberlain - Tribology of novel polymer orthopaedic bearings 
• Lewis Woollin - A novel hip surface replacement bearing
• Alex Boote - Improving cement pressure in cemented orthopaedic hip replacements
• Wan Saengwichian - Spinal correction rods failures in children
• Zhichao Ma - Novel Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) masks for sleep apnoea
• Cate Wilson - Biomechanics and spinal disc health [successful viva, 2017, some re-writing to complete]
  
• Emma Kennard - Surface analysis of knee replacement joints
• TBC - Lab on a chip analysis of blood samples in remote/disaster areas

Industrial partners:

• Zimmer Biomet Healthcare

• Invibio Biomaterials Solutions

• Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

I contribute to teaching at the Masters level on the following programme:

• Biomedical Engineering 

Specifically, I teach the following module in the bio-mechanical stream of bio-medical engineering (click below and go to the bottom of the page):

• MEC8049 : Orthopaedic Engineering

In addition, I supervise individual MSc projects associated with this programme. For more information about potential projects or orthopaedic engineering, please do not hesitate to contact me and I'll be happy to help.

General teaching duties:

Student mentor coordinator for Mechanical Engineering

MEC8049 Orthopaedic Engineering (MSc level, 20 credits)

MEC3018 Design for Industry (3rd year, 15 credits)

MEC3096/8 Individual Projects in 3rd year (30 credits)

MEC8095 MSc Projects (60 credits) 

MEC8099 Mechanical engineering team project, 4th year (40 credits)

MEC2007 Design II (assist in 'design week')

PhD supervisor to 8 students

• Ma Z, Drinnan M, Hyde P, Munguia J. Mask-interface for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure therapy: Selection and design considerations. Expert Review of Medical Devices 2018, 15(10), 725-733.
• Chamberlain KA, Rankin KS, Briscoe A, Deehan D, Hyde PJ. Wear properties of Poly-Ether-Ether-Ketone bearing combinations under zero and cross shear kinematics in total knee arthroplasty. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials 2019, 107(2), 445-453.
• Hyde PJ, Fisher J, Hall RM. Wear characteristics of an unconstrained lumbar total disc replacement under a range of in vitro test conditions. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials 2017, 105(1), 46-52.
• Vicars R, Hall R, Hyde PJ. Wear: Total Intervertebral Disc Prostheses. In: Paul Ducheyne, ed. Comprehensive Biomaterials II. Elsevier, 2017, pp.246-264.
• Hyde PJ, Fisher J, Hall RM. Wear simulation of a polyethylene-on-metal cervical total disc replacement under different concentrations of bovine serum lubricant. Journal of Engineering in Medicine 2016, 230(5), 481-488.
• Hyde PJ, Tipper J, Fisher J, Hall RM. Wear and biological effects of a semi-constrained total disc replacement subject to modified ISO standard test conditions. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 2015, 44, 43-52.
• Hyde PJ, Fisher J, Hall RM. Friction of PEEK and Carbon Fibre Reinforced PEEK Bearing Couples under Contact Conditions Typical of the Cervical Spine. In: 7th World Congress of Biomechanics. 2014, Boston, MA, USA.
• Hyde PJ, Fisher JF, Hall RM. FRICTION IN METAL-ON-POLYETHYLENE LUMBAR TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENTS. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery 2012, 94-B (SUPP XXXVI), 103.
• Hyde P, Vicars R, Fisher J, Brown T, Hall RM. PRODISC-L LUMBAR TOTAL DISC REPLACEMENT WEAR SENSITIVITY TO CHANGES IN INPUT KINEMATICS AND LOADING. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery 2012, 94 (SUPP.XVIII), 54.
• Hyde P, Vicars R, Fisher J, Hall R. Wear Simulation of Total Disc Arthroplasties: Sensitivity to Device Design and Test Parameters. Journal of ASTM International (JAI) 2012, 9(2).
• Hyde PJ, Fisher J, Brown T, Hall RM. Investigating TDR Wear-rate Sensitivity to Phasing, Loading and Forward Bending. In: SAS11 - 11th Annual Conference. 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
• Goreham-Voss CM, Hyde PJ, Hall RM, Fisher J, Brown TD. Cross-shear implementation in sliding-distance-coupled finite element analysis of wear in metal-on-polyethylene total joint arthroplasty: intervertebral total disc replacement as an illustrative application. Journal of Biomechanics 2010, 43(9), 1674-1681.
• Vicars R, Hyde PJ, Brown TD, Tipper JL, Ingham E, Fisher J, Hall RM. The effect of anterior–posterior shear load on the wear of ProDisc-L TDR. European Spine Journal 2010, 19(8), 1356-1362.