Soon-to-be Dr. Greg Boiczyk passed his PhD dissertation defense with flying colors today! His dissertation is entitled “Mechanics of Porcine Brain Tissue: Effects of Strain Rate, Region, and Anisotropy,” providing valuable mechanical data on the mechanical response of Gottingen minipig brain tissue. ...
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Soon-to-be Dr. Noah Pearson successfully defended his dissertation, titled “High Strain Rate Damage in Cerebral Arteries: A Molecular and Mechanical Analysis”!...
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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...
Continue readingPaper 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...
Continue readingNew 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....
Continue readingMatt successfully defends dissertation
Congratulations to Matt for successfully defending his PhD dissertation entitled “Trauma-Induced Alterations of Cerebral Vessel Mechanics and Microstructure.”...
Continue readingSameer successfully defends his MS thesis
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....
Continue readingJ Biomech Paper Accepted
Congratulations to Dave and Rahul on the acceptance of their paper Biaxial and failure properties of passive rat middle cerebral arteries by the Journal of Biomechanics!...
Continue readingDave’s abstract accepted for presentation at BMES 2012
Dave’s abstract has been accepted to the Biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting in Atlanta (Oct 24-27, 2012). Dr. Monson is a contributing author. Abstract title: The Fung Strain Energy Function Captures Passive Middle Cerebral Artery Response. Link to the abstract here....
Continue readingDr. Monson to present in BIOEN 3091
Dr. 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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