Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Volume Loss and Recovery in Bovine Knee Meniscus Loaded in Circumferential Tension
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Load-induced volume change is an important aspect of knee meniscus function because volume loss creates fluid pressure, which minimizes friction and helps support compressive loads. The knee meniscus is unusual amongst ... -
Artificial Neural Network-Aided Computational Approach for Mechanophenotyping of Biological Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The artificial neural network (ANN) based models have shown the potential to provide alternate data-driven solutions in disease diagnostics, cell sorting and overcoming AFM-related limitations. Hertzian model-based prediction ... -
Hybrid Message-Passing Interface-Open Multiprocessing Accelerated Euler–Lagrange Simulations of Microbubble Enhanced HIFU for Tumor Ablation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Microbubble enhanced high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is of great interest to tissue ablation for solid tumor treatments such as in liver and brain cancers, in which contrast agents/microbubbles are injected into ... -
A New Dissipation Function to Model the Rate-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Semilunar Valve Leaflets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A new dissipation function Wv is devised and presented to capture the rate-dependent mechanical behavior of the semilunar heart valves. Following the experimentally-guided framework introduced in our previous work ... -
Muscle Constitutive Model With a Tangent Modulus Approximation: Ansys Implementation and Verification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Sophisticated muscle material models are required to perform detailed finite element simulations of soft tissue; however, state-of-the-art muscle models are not among the built-in materials in popular commercial finite ... -
Dynein Dysfunction Prevents Maintenance of High Concentrations of Slow Axonal Transport Cargos at the Axon Terminal: A Computational Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Here, we report computational studies of bidirectional transport in an axon, specifically focusing on predictions when the retrograde motor becomes dysfunctional. We are motivated by reports that mutations in dynein-encoding ... -
Biomechanical Evaluation of Rigid Interspinous Process Fixation Combined With Lumbar Interbody Fusion Using Hybrid Testing Protocol
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Rigid interspinous process fixation (RIPF) has been recently discussed as an alternative to pedicle screw fixation (PSF) for reducing trauma in lumbar interbody fusion (LIF) surgery. This study aimed to investigate ... -
Conditions for Use and Implementation of Globally-Aligned Versus Local Baseplate Coordinate Systems When Computing Migration Using Radiostereometric Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Radiostereometric analysis can be used for computing movement of a tibial baseplate relative to the tibia (termed migration) to determine stability of fixation. Quantifying migration in six degrees of freedom requires ... -
Combining an Artificial Gastrocnemius and Powered Ankle Prosthesis: Effects on Transtibial Prosthesis User Gait
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Walking is more difficult for transtibial prosthesis users, partly due to a lack of calf muscle function. Powered ankle prostheses can partially restore calf muscle function, specifically push-off power from the soleus. ... -
Design Considerations for the Attenuation of Translational and Rotational Accelerations in American Football Helmets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Participants in American football experience repetitive head impacts that induce negative changes in neurocognitive function over the course of a single season. This study aimed to quantify the transfer function connecting ... -
Evaluation of Soft Mist Inhaler Aerosol Velocity, Size, and Deposition Inside the Mouth—A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Respiratory diseases debilitate more than 250 million people around the world. Among available inhalation devices, the soft mist inhaler (SMI) is the most efficient at delivering drugs to ease respiratory disease symptoms. ... -
Evaluating the Role of Canalicular Morphology and Perilacunar Region Properties on Local Mechanical Environment of Lacunar–Canalicular Network Using Finite Element Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Physiological and pathological processes such as aging, diseases, treatments, and lactation can alter lacunar–canalicular network (LCN) morphology and perilacunar region properties. These modifications can impact the ... -
Single Accelerometer to Recognize Human Activities Using Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Exoskeletons have decreased physical effort and increased comfort in activities of daily living (ADL) such as walking, squatting, and running. However, this assistance is often activity specific and does not accommodate a ... -
Spatial Variation in Young Ovine Cortical Bone Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Significant effort continues to be made to understand whether differences exist in the structural, compositional, and mechanical properties of cortical bone subjected to different strain modes or magnitudes. We evaluated ... -
A Method for Evaluating Brain Deformation Under Sagittal Blunt Impacts Using a Half-Skull Human-Scale Surrogate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Trauma to the brain is a biomechanical problem where the initiating event is a dynamic loading (blunt, inertial, blast) to the head. To understand the relationship between the mechanical parameters of the injury and the ... -
Erratum to “Controlled Vacuum Seeding as a Means of Generating Uniform Cellular Distribution in Electrospun Polycaprolactone (PCL) Scaffolds,” ASME J. Biomech. Eng., 2009, 131(7), p. 074521, DOI: 10.1115/1.3173283
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)It has recently come to our attention that there were errors in the proper referencing of Table 1 and discrepancies in the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs in Table 2.The caption for Table 1 should read as ... -
From Scan to Simulation—A Novel Workflow for Developing Bioinspired Heart Valves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Current heart valve replacements lack durability and prolonged performance, especially in pediatric patients. In part, these problems may be attributed to the materials chosen for these constructs, but another important ... -
Physiological Axial Tibial Rotation of the Knee During a Weightbearing Flexion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Axial tibial rotation is a characteristic motion of the knee, but how it occurs with knee flexion is controversial. We investigated the mechanisms of tibial rotations by analyzing in vivo tibiofemoral articulations. Twenty ... -
A Numerical Study on Mechanical Effects of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Trabecular Bone and Osteoblasts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The lack of sufficient mechanical stimulation to the human bone, results in disuse osteoporosis. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) promotes fracture healing and the treatment of disuse osteoporosis, but its biomechanical ... -
The Mechanical Characterization and Comparison of Male and Female Calvaria Under Four-Point Bending Impacts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The circumstances in which we mechanically test and critically assess human calvarium tissue would find relevance under conditions encompassing real-world head impacts. These conditions include, among other variables, ...