Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Applying ASTM Standards to Tensile Tests of Musculoskeletal Soft Tissue: Methods to Reduce Grip Failures and Promote Reproducibility
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Tensile testing is an essential experiment to assess the mechanical integrity of musculoskeletal soft tissues, yet standard test methods have not been developed to ensure the quality and reproducibility of these experiments. ... -
Enhancing the Accuracy of Vertical Ground Reaction Force Measurement During Walking Using Pressure-Measuring Insoles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Pressure-measuring insoles can be an attractive tool for measuring ground reaction force (GRF) since they are portable and can record multiple consecutive steps. Several researchers have, however, observed that these insoles ... -
On the Discretization of the Power-Law Hemolysis Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Flow-induced hemolysis remains a concern for blood-contacting devices, and computer-based prediction of hemolysis could facilitate faster and more economical refinement of such devices. While evaluation of convergence of ... -
Self-Tuning Extended Kalman Filter Parameters to Identify Ankle's Third-Order Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The estimation of human ankle's mechanical impedance is an important tool for modeling human balance. This work presents the implementation of a parameter-estimation approach based on a state-augmented extended Kalman ... -
Design and Evaluation of Torque Compensation Controllers for a Lower Extremity Exoskeleton
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In this article, we present an integrated human-in-the-loop simulation paradigm for the design and evaluation of a lower extremity exoskeleton that is elastically strapped onto human lower limbs. The exoskeleton has three ... -
Morphological Analysis of the Right Ventricular Endocardial Wall in Pulmonary Hypertension
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a chronic progressive disease diagnosed when the pressure in the main pulmonary artery, assessed by right heart catheterization (RHC), is greater than 25 mmHg. Changes in the pulmonary ... -
Visualizing the Flow Patterns in an Expanding and Contracting Pulmonary Alveolated Duct Based on Microcomputed Tomography Images
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)We visualized the flow patterns in an alveolated duct model with breathing-like expanding and contracting wall motions using particle image velocimetry, and then, we investigated the effect of acinar deformation on the ... -
An Efficient Assisted Bidirectional Glenn Design With Lowered Superior Vena Cava Pressure for Stage-One Single Ventricle Patients
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Recently, the assisted bidirectional Glenn (ABG) procedure has been proposed as an alternative to the modified Blalock–Taussig shunt (mBTS) operation for neonates with single-ventricle physiology. Despite success in reducing ... -
Comparison of Posterior Fixation Strategies for Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture: A Finite Element Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The management of thoracolumbar (TL) burst fractures remained challenging. Due to the complex nature of the fractured vertebrae and the lack of clinical and biomechanical evidence, currently, there was still no guideline ... -
Non-Newtonian Blood Modeling in Intracranial Aneurysm Hemodynamics: Impact on the Wall Shear Stress and Oscillatory Shear Index Metrics for Ruptured and Unruptured Cases
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)When simulating blood flow in intracranial aneurysms (IAs), the Newtonian model seems to be ubiquitous. However, analyzing the results from the few studies on this subject, the doubt remains on whether it is necessary to ... -
The Impact of an Open-Book Pelvic Ring Injury on Bone Strain: Validation of a Finite Element Model and Analysis Within the Gait Cycle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The threshold for surgical stabilization for an open-book pelvic fracture is not well defined. The purpose of this research was to validate the biomechanical behavior of a specimen-specific pelvic finite element (FE) model ... -
Pumping Patterns and Work Done During Peristalsis in Finite-Length Elastic Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Balloon dilation catheters are often used to quantify the physiological state of peristaltic activity in tubular organs and comment on their ability to propel fluid which is important for healthy human function. To fully ... -
In Vitro Mechanical Characterization and Modeling of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A Comprehensive Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Mechanical models of adipose tissue are important for various medical applications including cosmetics, injuries, implantable drug delivery systems, plastic surgeries, biomechanical applications such as computational human ... -
A Brief on Biological Thermodynamics for Human Physiology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Thermodynamics, the science of energy interactions, governs the direction of processes found in nature. While the subject finds wide applications in science and technology, its connection to biological sciences and in ... -
Mechanobiology in Tendon, Ligament, and Skeletal Muscle Tissue Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Tendon, ligament, and skeletal muscle are highly organized tissues that largely rely on a hierarchical collagenous matrix to withstand high tensile loads experienced in activities of daily life. This critical biomechanical ... -
Comparison of the Trueness of Fits of the Biphasic Transverse Isotropic and Kelvin Models to the Tensile Behavior of Temporomandibular Joint Disc
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This technical brief explores the validity and trueness of fit for using the transverse isotropic biphasic and Kelvin models (first and second order generalized) for characterization of the viscoelastic tensile properties ... -
Impact-Induced Cortical Strain Concentrations at the Sulcal Base and Its Implications for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study investigated impact-induced strain fields within brain tissue surrogates having different cortical gyrification. Two elastomeric surrogates, one representative of a lissencephalic brain and the other of a ... -
Investigating the Effect of Axial Compression and Distraction on Cervical Facet Mechanics During Supraphysiologic Anterior Shear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Bilateral cervical facet dislocation (BFD) with facet fracture (Fx) often causes tetraplegia but is rarely recreated experimentally, possibly due to a lack of muscle replication. Intervertebral axial compression (due to ... -
Load-Sharing and Kinematics of the Human Cervical Spine Under Multi-Axial Transverse Shear Loading: Combined Experimental and Computational Investigation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The cervical spine experiences shear forces during everyday activities and injurious events yet there is a paucity of biomechanical data characterizing the cervical spine under shear loading. This study aimed to (1) ... -
Neonatal Spinal Cord Transection Decreases Hindlimb Weight-Bearing and Affects Formation of Achilles and Tail Tendons
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Mechanical loading may be required for proper tendon formation. However, it is not well understood how tendon formation is impacted by the development of weight-bearing locomotor activity in the neonate. This study assessed ...