Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography as a Technique for Quantifying Carpal Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Delayed diagnosis of dynamic carpal instability often occurs because early changes in bone alignment and movement are difficult to detect and manifest mainly during a dynamic/functional task. Current diagnostic tools are ... -
High-Rate Anisotropic Properties in Human Infant Parietal and Occipital Bone
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Computational models of infant head impact are limited by the paucity of infant cranial bone material property data, particularly with regard to the anisotropic relationships created by the trabecular fibers in infant bone. ... -
Eighty-Five Percent of Improved Optical Power Delivery to Epiretinal Prostheses Using Rigid Body Compensation Algorithm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Vision impairment caused by degenerative retinal pathologies such as age-related macular degeneration can be treated using retinal implants. Such devices receive power and data using cables passing through a permanent ... -
Application of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition to Study Coherent Flow Structures in a Saccular Aneurysm
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Aneurysms are localized expansions of weakened blood vessels that can be debilitating or fatal upon rupture. Previous studies have shown that flow in an aneurysm exhibits complex flow structures that are correlated with ... -
Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic Characterization of Soft Tissue-Mimicking Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)We present a novel method based on the quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) theory to describe the time-dependent behavior of soft materials. Unlike previous methods for deriving QLV parameters, we characterize the elastic and ... -
Optimization of Underbody Blast Energy-Attenuating Seat Mechanisms Using Modified MADYMO Human Body Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Though energy attenuating (EA) seats for air and spacecraft applications have existed for decades, they have not yet been fully characterized for their energy attenuation capability or resulting effect on occupant protection ... -
The Potential for Quantifying Regional Distributions of Radial and Shear Strain in the Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Wall Using Spiral Cine DENSE Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Aortic displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was recently developed to assess heterogeneities in aortic wall circumferential strain (CS). However, previous studies neglected ... -
A Novel Kinematic Model of the Tibiofemoral Joint Based on a Parallel Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a complete kinematic model of the tibiofemoral joint (TFJ) based on a RRPP + 4-SPS parallel mechanism, where R, P, and S stand for revolute, prismatic, and spherical joints, respectively. The model ... -
A Methodology to Evaluate the Effects of Kinematic Measurement Uncertainties on Knee Ligament Properties Estimated From Laxity Measurements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Ligaments are important joint stabilizers but assessing their mechanical properties remain challenging. We developed a methodology to investigate the effects of kinematic measurement uncertainty during laxity tests on ... -
Protective Headgear Attenuates Forces on the Inner Table and Pressure in the Brain Parenchyma During Blast and Impact: An Experimental Study Using a Simulant-Based Surrogate Model of the Human Head
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Military personnel sustain head and brain injuries as a result of ballistic, blast, and blunt impact threats. Combat helmets are meant to protect the heads of these personnel during injury events. Studies show peak kinematics ... -
A Modified Parallel Plate Flow Chamber to Study Local Endothelial Response to Recirculating Disturbed Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Atherosclerosis develops at arterial sites where endothelial cells (ECs) are exposed to low time-averaged shear stress, in particular in regions of recirculating disturbed flow. To understand how hemodynamics contributes ... -
Combined Experimental Approach and Finite Element Modeling of Small Molecule Transport Through Joint Synovium to Measure Effective Diffusivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Trans-synovial solute transport plays a critical role in the clearance of intra-articularly (IA) delivered drugs. In this study, we present a computational finite element model (FEM) of solute transport through the synovium ... -
Effect of Viscoelasticity on Arterial-Like Pulsatile Flow Dynamics and Energy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Time-dependent arterial wall property is an important but difficult topic in vascular mechanics. Hysteresis, which appears during the measurement of arterial pressure–diameter relationship through a cardiac cycle, has been ... -
Design Evaluation of a Novel Multicompartment Unloader Knee Brace
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a significant problem in the aging population, causing pain, impaired mobility, and decreased quality of life. Conservative treatment methods are necessary to reduce rapidly increasing rates of ... -
A Dual-VENC Four-Dimensional Flow MRI Framework for Analysis of Subject-Specific Heterogeneous Nonlinear Vessel Deformation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Advancement of subject-specific in silico medicine requires new imaging protocols tailored to specific anatomical features, paired with new constitutive model development based on structure/function relationships. In this ... -
ANNUAL SPECIAL ISSUE “Biomechanical Engineering—2019 Year in Review”
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)JBME continues to thrive. Our impact factor was largely unchanged at 2.02 for 2018 (from 2.05 for 2017). At the time of writing this, our total submissions in 2019 are on pace to be slightly ahead of last year's 556, and ... -
How to Carry Loads Economically: Analysis Based on a Predictive Biped Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Carrying heavy loads costs additional energy during walking and leads to fatigue of the user. Conventionally, the load is fixed on the body. Some recent studies showed energy cost reduction when the relative motion of the ... -
A Normative Database of Hip and Knee Joint Biomechanics During Dynamic Tasks Using Four Functional Methods With Three Functional Calibration Tasks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Although predicted hip joint center (HJC) locations are known to vary widely between functional methods, no previous investigation has detailed functional method-dependent hip and knee biomechanics. The purpose of this ... -
Automated Quantification of Diseased Thoracic Aortic Longitudinal Centerline and Surface Curvatures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Precise description of vascular morphometry is crucial to support medical device manufacturers and clinicians for improving device development and interventional outcomes. A compact and intuitive method is presented to ... -
Reliability-Based Design Optimization of a Cemented Prosthesis in a Femur Undergoing Bone Remodeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This study proposes a numerical methodology to minimize the bone mass loss in a femur with a total hip arthroplasty procedure, considering uncertainties in the material parameters and using a reliability-based design ...