Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Predicting Leg Forces and Knee Moments Using Inertial Measurement Units: An In Vitro Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)We compared the ability of seven machine learning algorithms to use wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU) data to identify the severe knee loading cycles known to induce microdamage associated with anterior cruciate ... -
Sensitivity Analysis of Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Models During Isometric and Isokinetic Tasks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Sensitivity coefficients are used to understand how errors in subject-specific musculoskeletal model parameters influence model predictions. Previous sensitivity studies in the lower limb calculated sensitivity using ... -
Layer-Specific Properties of the Human Infra-Renal Aorta During Aging Considering Pre/Post-Failure Damage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)There is little information on the layer-specific failure properties of the adult human abdominal aorta, and there has been no quantification of postfailure damage. Infra-renal aortas were thus taken from forty-seven autopsy ... -
The Effect of an Increasing Subglottal Stenosis Constriction That Extends From the Vocal Folds to the Inferior Border of the Cricoid Cartilage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Acquired subglottal stenosis is an unpredicted complication that can occur in some patients who have undergone prolonged endotracheal intubation. It is a narrowing of the airway at the level of the cricoid cartilage that ... -
A Mechanics-Based Perspective on the Function of Human Sphincters During Functional Luminal Imaging Probe Manometry
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Functional luminal imaging probe (FLIP) is used to measure cross-sectional area (CSA) and pressure at sphincters. It consists of a catheter surrounded by a fluid filled cylindrical bag, closed on both ends. Plotting the ... -
Comparison of Two Contact Detection Methods for Ground Reaction Forces and Moment Estimation During Sidestep Cuts, Runs, and Walks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Force platforms often limit the analysis of human movement to the laboratory. Promising methods for estimating ground reaction forces and moments (GRF&M) can overcome this limitation. The most effective family of methods ... -
An Approach to Quantify Anisotropic Multiaxial Failure of the Annulus Fibrosus
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Tears in the annulus fibrosus (AF) of the intervertebral disk (IVD) occur due to multiaxial loading on the spine. However, most existing AF failure studies measure uniaxial stress, not the multiaxial stress at failure. ... -
Evaluation of an Unloading Concept for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Pilot Study in a Small Patient Group
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Joint compressive forces have been identified as a risk factor for osteoarthritis disease progression. Therefore, unloader braces are a common treatment with the aim of relieving pain, but their effects are not clearly ... -
A Novel Port to Facilitate Magnetic Hyperthermia Therapy for Glioma
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)High-grade gliomas (HGG) are the most common primary brain malignancy and continue to be associated with a dismal prognosis (median survival rate of 15–18 months) with standard of care therapy. Magnetic hyperthermia therapy ... -
How Important is Position in Adaptive Treadmill Control?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)To more closely mimic overground walking, researchers are developing adaptive treadmills (ATMs) that update belt speed in real-time based on user gait mechanics. Many existing ATM control schemes are solely based on position ... -
Upper Extremity Muscle Activation Pattern Prediction Through Synergy Extrapolation and Electromyography-Driven Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Patients with neuromuscular disease fail to produce necessary muscle force and have trouble maintaining joint moment required to perform activities of daily living. Measuring muscle force values in patients with neuromuscular ... -
Residual Stresses in Surgical Growing Rods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The treatment of early onset scoliosis using surgical growing rods suffers from high failure rate. Fatigue resistance can be improved by inducing compressive residual stresses within the near surface region. An in-depth ... -
Neo-Natal Castration Leads to Subtle Differences in Porcine Anterior Cruciate Ligament Morphology and Function in Adolescence
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Female adolescent athletes are at a higher risk of tearing their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) than male counterparts. While most work related to hormones has focused on the effects of estrogen to understand the increased ... -
Spatiotemporal Evolution of Toddlers' Regional Foot Pressure Distribution and Center of Pressure at Antero-Posterior Axis During Learning of Standing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)We investigated quiet stance of newly standing toddlers every three months (trimesters) of their second year of life. Their anteroposterior center-of-pressure (CoPx) velocity and centroidal frequency (CFREQ: 2.36 ± 0.10 ... -
Validation of a Low-Cost Portable Device for Inducing Noninvasive Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Mice
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/8/2023 1)Noninvasive compression-induced anterior cruciate ligament rupture (ACL-R) is an easy and reproducible model for studying post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in mice. However, equipment typically used for ACL-R is expensive, ... -
Convergence of Phase-Averaged, Transitional Flow in an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysmal Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/11/2023 )Abdominal aortic aneurysm can exhibit transitional flow characteristics in laminar flow regimes. To report transitional flow characteristics, we examined the convergence of phase-averaged solutions by executing blood flow ... -
Engineering Analysis of Non-Braided Polycaprolactone Bioresorbable Flow Diverters for Aneurysms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/8/2023 1)This paper reports a nonbraided, bioresorbable polycaprolactone (PCL) flow diverter (FD) for the endovascular treatment of aneurysms. Bioresorbable FDs can reduce the risk associated with the permanent metallic FDs as they ... -
Effect of Direction and Frequency of Skull Motion on Mechanical Vulnerability of the Human Brain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/8/2023 1)Strain energy and kinetic energy in the human brain were estimated by magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) during harmonic excitation of the head, and compared to characterize the effect of loading direction and frequency ... -
A New Strain Energy Function Representing the Passive Behavior of the Myocardium
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/8/2023 1)Classical models for the passive myocardium, such as the Fung and Holzapfel–Ogden models, are known to have high degeneracy as well as numerous mechanical and mathematical limitations, preventing their utility in microstructural ... -
Simulating Subject-Specific Aortic Hemodynamic Effects of Valvular Lesions in Rheumatic Heart Disease
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/2/2023 1)Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a neglected tropical disease despite the substantial global health burden. In this study, we aimed to develop a lower cost method of modeling aortic blood flow using subject-specific velocity ...