Category: Vessel Mechanics

Matt takes 1st place at SB3C!

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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Stretch-induced dysfunction paper accepted

Congratulations to Dave and to our collaborator Tony Donato for acceptance of our paper entitled “Cerebrovascular dysfunction following subfailure axial stretch” for publication in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials! This paper reports experiments showing that smooth muscle contractile response is altered by sub-failure axial overstretch. This suggests that tissue deformation during...

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Cerebral artery development paper accepted

Congratulations to Kevin, Matt, and our collaborators in the Albertine Lab, on the acceptance of our paper entitled “Development of mechanical and failure properties in sheep cerebral arteries” by the Annals of Biomedical Engineering! This research shows dramatic changes in the large deformation response of cerebral arteries between late gestation and adulthood. See publications page for more details....

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Talk at Summer Bioengineering Meeting

Congratulations to Matt, Justin, and Ray for presentation of their work at the SB3C Conference in National Harbor, MD, on 6/30/2016. The talk reporting their work was entitled “Direction-Dependent Collagen Disruption in Overstretched Cerebral Arteries” and reports further quantification of collagen damage resulting from circumferential overstretch. Findings were based on the use of collagen...

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