A review on design methods for compliant mechanisms

AE Albanesi, VD Fachinotti… - Mecánica …, 2010 - amcaonline.org.ar
This paper gives a brief overview and comparison of the methods applied in the design of
compliant mechanisms. Since the first research works on the subject appeared in the 1980s …

On the prospect of patient-specific biomechanics without patient-specific properties of tissues

K Miller, J Lu - Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents main theses of two keynote lectures delivered at Euromech Colloquium
“Advanced experimental approaches and inverse problems in tissue biomechanics” held in …

In vivo determination of elastic properties of the human aorta based on 4D ultrasound data

A Wittek, K Karatolios, P Bihari, T Schmitz-Rixen… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Elsevier
Computational analysis of the biomechanics of the vascular system aims at a better
understanding of its physiology and pathophysiology. To be of clinical use, however, these …

Digital image correlation-based point-wise inverse characterization of heterogeneous material properties of gallbladder in vitro

K Genovese, L Casaletto… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Continuing advances in mechanobiology reveal more and more that many cell types,
especially those responsible for establishing, maintaining, remodelling or repairing …

Isogeometric high order mesh generation

T Schneider, D Panozzo, X Zhou - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a new posteriori method to generate high order curved meshes
directly from linear meshes through a recently developed poly-spline isogeometric (IGA) …

Evaluation of an Inverse Method for Quantifying Spatially Variable Mechanics

DP Pearce, CM Witzenburg - Journal of …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Soft biological tissues often function as highly deformable membranes in vivo and exhibit
impressive mechanical behavior effectively characterized by planar biaxial testing. The …

A depth camera-based soft fingertip device for contact region estimation and perception-action coupling

I Huang, J Liu, R Bajcsy - 2019 International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As the demand for robotic applications in unconstrained and dynamic environments rises, so
does the benefit of advancing the state of the art in soft robotic technologies. However, the …

Patient-specific wall stress analysis in cerebral aneurysms using inverse shell model

X Zhou, ML Raghavan, RE Harbaugh, J Lu - Annals of biomedical …, 2010 - Springer
Stress analyses of patient-specific vascular structures commonly assume that the
reconstructed in vivo configuration is stress free although it is in a pre-deformed state. We …

A shell-based inverse approach of stress analysis in intracranial aneurysms

J Lu, S Hu, ML Raghavan - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2013 - Springer
Predicting pressure induced wall stress in intracranial aneurysms continues to be of interest
for aneurysm safety assessment. In quasi-static analysis, there are two distinct approaches …

Identifying heterogeneous anisotropic properties in cerebral aneurysms: a pointwise approach

X Zhao, ML Raghavan, J Lu - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2011 - Springer
The traditional approaches of estimating heterogeneous properties in a soft tissue structure
using optimization-based inverse methods often face difficulties because of the large …