Congratulations to Sameer for successfully defending his MS thesis entitled “Computational Characterization of Vascular Mechanics”! Sameer used computational modeling to explore vessel mechanics in both ring and high-rate testing....
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The lab has received notice of new funding from the Henry Jackson Foundation, through collaboration with the Biotechnology HPC Software Applications Institute, to investigate the high-rate properties of minipig brain and cerebral arteries. Findings will be used to develop of a model of blast brain injury....
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Congrats to Matt for taking first place in the student paper competition at SB3C in Tucson on June 24! The title of his presentation was “Arterial damage model based on empirical stretch thresholds of collagen unfolding and tissue yielding.” This work utilizes data on collagen fiber unfolding in overstretched vessels to inform a theoretical...
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Congratulations to Nan-Wei for his first place finish in the poster contest at the Utah Bioengineering Conference this last weekend (Sep 7)! His poster was entitled “Mechanics of Blast Loading on an Isolated Blood Vessel: A Finite Element Approach.”...
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Nan-Wei’s abstract has been accepted for podium presentation at the 11th Annual International Symposium for Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering here in Salt Lake City (April 3-6, 2013). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: Blood vessel response under various blast loadings: finite element simulation on a simplified cylinder. Link to...
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Check out the nice feature on our research group in the latest College of Engineering Research Report (click image at right to view)....
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Stewart’s abstract on blood vessel injury in cerebral contusion has been accepted for presentation at the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference in Puerto Rico (June 20-23, 2012). Contributing authors are Brad Zentgraf and Dr. Monson. Stewart has also been invited to give a podium presentation as a finalist in the PhD student competition (one of...
Continue readingDr. Monson will present “Cerebrovascular Biomechanics in Traumatic Brain Injury” in Current Research in BME (BIOEN 3091) on Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012, in WEB 2230....
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