Degree Program: BS Department: Mechanical Engineering Hometown: Vancouver, Washington Research Interests: Biomechanics Favorite way to spend time away from school: Hiking and exploring SLC Favorite place to eat in Salt Lake: Hub and Spoke The thing you love most about Salt Lake: The mountains and the people...
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Degree Program: MS Department: Mechanical Engineering Hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania Research Interests: Biomechanics and robotics Favorite way to spend time away from school: Climbing or skiing in the Cottonwood Canyons Favorite place to eat in Salt Lake: Zest Kitchen in downtown The thing you love most about Salt Lake: Living in Salt Lake allows me...
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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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Congratulations to Matt for getting his paper entitled “Biaxial softening of isolated cerebral arteries following axial overstretch” accepted for publication at the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. This paper quantifies changes in circumferential properties following overstretch. See the publications page for more details....
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Congrats to Farshad Mogharrabi for successfully defending his MS thesis! It is titled “Experimental evaluation of photo-activated cross-linking effects on mechanical properties of arteries post-angioplasty.” This work was performed in collaboration with Alucent Biomedical....
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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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A suitable recognition of Matt for his hard work!...
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Degree Program: PhD Mechanical Engineering Department: Mechanical Engineering Hometown: Holladay, UT Research Interests: Biomechanics, Computer Vision, Medical Device Development Honors / Awards: US Patents: 17/861,002 – Pending; Bench To Bedside 2018 – Legacy Award Winner Favorite way to spend time away from school: Trail running Favorite place to eat in Salt Lake: Pretty Bird Thing...
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Congratulations to Dave and co-authors for acceptance of our paper entitled “Material properties of rat middle cerebral arteries at high strain rates.” It will be published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. This paper details the strain rate dependence of rat cerebral artery properties. See publications page for more details....
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Our review article entitled “Cerebral blood vessel damage in traumatic brain injury” has been accepted for publication in Clinical Biomechanics. This paper outlines the current state of knowledge on vascular damage in traumatic brain injury....
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