Finite element methods in human head impact simulations: a review

A Madhukar, M Ostoja-Starzewski - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2019 - Springer
Head impacts leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) present a major health risk today,
projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. While finite element (FE) …

Tissue‐scale biomechanical testing of brain tissue for the calibration of nonlinear material models

J Faber, J Hinrichsen, A Greiner, N Reiter… - Current …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Brain tissue is one of the most complex and softest tissues in the human body. Due to its
ultrasoft and biphasic nature, it is difficult to control the deformation state during …

Compressive mechanical properties of porcine brain: experimentation and modeling of the tissue hydration effects

RK Prabhu, MT Begonia, WR Whittington, MA Murphy… - Bioengineering, 2019 - mdpi.com
Designing protective systems for the human head—and, hence, the brain—requires
understanding the brain's microstructural response to mechanical insults. We present the …

猪肝动态力学性能及本构模型研究

王宝珍, 胡时胜 - 力学学报, 2017 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
在交通事故中, 腹部器官常因冲击载荷作用而受到伤害, 严重时甚至危及生命.
肝损伤是腹部损伤中最为常见的一种, 致死率很高, 了解肝脏的动态力学性能对于事故中肝脏的 …

Utilization of dielectric properties for assessment of liver ischemia-reperfusion injury in vivo and during machine perfusion

J Hou, OMI Liavåg, IH Færden, ØG Martinsen… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
There is a shortage of donor livers and patients consequently die on waiting lists worldwide.
Livers are discarded if they are clinically judged to have a high risk of non-function following …

Grinding characteristics, material removal, and damage formation mechanisms of zirconia ceramics in hybrid laser/grinding

S Xu, Z Yao, J He, J Xu - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Zirconia ceramics which are sometimes called “ceramic steel” have gained significant
interest because of their excellent properties. However, it is desired to maintain the surface …

Comparative assessment of liver tissue: from microstructural and mesoscale vascular architecture to macroscopic mechanics

W Kang, K Sun, L Wang, Y Fan - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2024 - Springer
Accurately characterizing the liver's mechanical properties is of paramount importance for
disease diagnosis, treatment, surgical prosthetic modeling, and impact injury dummies …

Mechanical response of porcine liver tissue under high strain rate compression

J Chen, SS Patnaik, RK Prabhu, LB Priddy, JL Bouvard… - Bioengineering, 2019 - mdpi.com
In automobile accidents, abdominal injuries are often life-threatening yet not apparent at the
time of initial injury. The liver is the most commonly injured abdominal organ from this type of …

Quantitative analysis of tissue damage evolution in porcine liver with interrupted mechanical testing under tension, compression, and shear

J Chen, B Brazile, R Prabhu… - Journal of …, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this study, the damage evolution of liver tissue was quantified at the microstructural level
under tensile, compression, and shear loading conditions using an interrupted mechanical …

Research on dynamic mechanical response and constitutive model of porcine liver

W Baozhen, H Shisheng - Chinese Journal of Theoretical and …, 2017 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
Impact-induced injuries to the abdominal organs appear frequently in traffic accidents and
even cause serious life-threatening. The liver is one of the most vulnerable abdominal …