New funding from NSF

A new proposal entitled “Tissue Damage Progression in Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury” has been funded by the NSF. The new project, including Brittany Coats of the Utah Head Trauma Lab and Michele Marino of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, will characterize damage to pia-arachnoid complex tissues resulting from repeated loading and study the influence...

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Paper reporting model for rate dependent cerebral vasculature published

Congratulations to Noah for getting his paper entitled “A strain-rate dependent constitutive model for Göttingen minipig cerebral arteries” published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering! This paper shows that Göttingen minipig cerebral arteries are rate dependent and proposes a model for use in computational models of head injury that account for the vasculature. See the publications...

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Paper on stretch-induced rupture of intima published

Congratulations to Matt and Kevin for getting their paper entitled “Stretch-induced intimal failure in isolated cerebral arteries as a function of development” published in Annals of Biomedical Engineering! This paper shows that the intimal layer of cerebral arteries commonly ruptures prior to external layers and may have significant implications for vessel dysfunction following traumatic brain...

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New funding from the NSF

The lab has received notice of new funding from the National Science Foundation. The goals of this project are to define rate-dependent, multiscale damage mechanisms in blood vessels and to link these mechanisms to changes in vessel properties through a constitutive damage model....

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