Journal of Biomechanical Engineering: Recent submissions
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The Effects of Prosthesis Inversion/Eversion Stiffness on Balance-Related Variability During Level Walking: A Pilot Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Prosthesis features that enhance balance are desirable to people with transtibial amputation. Ankle inversion/eversion compliance is intended to improve balance on uneven ground, but its effects remain unclear on level ... -
Comparison of Human Surrogate Responses in Underbody Blast Loading Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Impact biomechanics research in occupant safety predominantly focuses on the effects of loads applied to human subjects during automotive collisions. Characterization of the biomechanical response under such loading ... -
A Nonlinear Reduced-Order Model of the Corpus Callosum Under Planar Coronal Excitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often associated with microstructural tissue damage in the brain, which results from its complex biomechanical behavior. Recent studies have shown that the deep white matter (WM) region of ... -
Ligament and Bone Arch Partition of the Carpal Tunnel by Three-Dimensional Ultrasonography
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The carpal tunnel is geometrically irregular due to the complex composition of many carpal bones intercalated by numerous intercarpal ligaments. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relative contributions of the ... -
Computed Poststenotic Flow Instabilities Correlate Phenotypically With Vibrations Measured Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry: Perspectives for a Promising In Vivo Device for Early Detection of Moderate and Severe Carotid Stenosis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Early detection of asymptomatic carotid stenosis is crucial for treatment planning in the prevention of ischemic stroke. Auscultation, the current first-line screening methodology, comes with severe limitations that create ... -
The Effect of Strain Rate on the Stress Relaxation of the Pig Dermis: A Hyper-Viscoelastic Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The understanding of strain rate-dependent mechanical properties of the skin is important for accurate prediction of its biomechanics under different loading conditions. This study investigated the effect of strain rate, ... -
Simulation of the Multiphysical Coupling Behavior of Active Hearing Mechanism Within Spiral Cochlea
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Nobel Laureate von Békésy first presented traveling wave theory, which explains the vibration mechanism of the basilar membrane (BM) of cochlea in 1960, and thus the mysterious veil of passive phonoreceptive mechanism of ... -
Combining Freehand Ultrasound-Based Indentation and Inverse Finite Element Modeling for the Identification of Hyperelastic Material Properties of Thigh Soft Tissues
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Finite element analysis (FEA) is a numerical modeling tool vastly employed in research facilities to analyze and predict load transmission between the human body and a medical device, such as a prosthesis or an exoskeleton. ... -
Subsidence of Additively-Manufactured Cages in Foam Substrates: Effect of Contact Topology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Subsidence of implants into bone is a major source of morbidity. The underlying mechanics of the phenomenon are not clear, but are likely related to interactions between contact stresses and the underlying porous trabecular ... -
Influence of Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion on Hemodynamics in the Central Veins
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Central venous catheter (CVC) related thrombosis is a major cause of CVC dysfunction in patients under hemodialysis. The aim of our study was to investigate the impact of CVC insertion on hemodynamics in the central veins ... -
A Pilot Study to Detect Balance Impairment in Older Adults Using an Instrumented One-Leg Stance Test
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The aim of this study was to investigate whether parameters from an instrumented one-leg stance (OLS) on a force plate could provide relevant information related to fall risk in older people. Forty-two community dwelling ... -
Alterations in the Geometry, Fiber Orientation, and Mechanical Behavior of the Lumbar Intervertebral Disc by Nucleus Swelling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Soft tissues observed in clinical medical images are often prestrained in tension by internal pressure or tissue hydration. For a native disc, nucleus swelling occurs in equilibrium with osmotic pressure induced by the ... -
Bond Graph Modeling of Mechanical Circulatory Support Device—Cardiovascular System Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Though mechanical circulatory support (MCS) devices, such as ventricular assist devices and total artificial hearts (TAH), provide heart failure patients with bridges to heart transplantation or are alternatives to ... -
Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of the Effects of Ligaments on Human Sacroiliac Joint and Pelvis in Two Different Positions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)To present the ligament effects on sacroiliac joint (SIJ) stability and human pelvis biomechanical characteristics in two different positions by using three-dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) models of pelvis. Based on ... -
Biomechanical Relationships Between Manual Wheelchair Steering and the Position of the Human Body's Center of Gravity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The purpose of this investigation was to analyze the impact of differential steering of a wheelchair with a pushrim on changes in the position of the body's center of gravity. The method assumed measuring the wheelchair ... -
Finite Element-Predicted Effects of Screw Configuration in Proximal Humerus Fracture Fixation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Internal fixation with the use of locking plates is the standard surgical treatment for proximal humerus fractures, one of the most common fractures in the elderly. Screw cut-out through weak cancellous bone of the humeral ... -
Nonanatomic Placement of Posteromedial Meniscal Root Repairs: A Finite Element Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Nonanatomic placement of posteromedial meniscal root repairs alters knee mechanics; however, little is known about how the position and magnitude of misplacement affect knee mechanics. Finite element knee models were ... -
Validated Computational Framework for Evaluation of In Vivo Knee Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Dynamic, in vivo evaluations of knee mechanics are important for understanding knee injury and repair, and developing successful treatments. Computational models have been used with in vivo experiments to quantify joint ... -
Stress-Swelling Finite Element Modeling of Cervical Response With Homeostatic Collagen Fiber Distributions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)During pregnancy, the cervix experiences significant mechanical property change due to tissue swelling, and to ongoing changes in the collagen content. In this paper, we model how these two effects contribute to cervical ... -
Anisotropic Diffusivity Tensor in Articular Cartilage: Effective Medium Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Due to the avascular nature of articular cartilage, molecular transport occurs via interstitial fluid flow as well as via diffusion. Diffusion in cartilage has been studied experimentally, but no mathematical models have ...