...Mina S. R. Aziz; Bruce Nicayenzi; Meghan C. Crookshank; Habiba Bougherara; Emil H. Schemitsch; Radovan Zdero Classic beam theory can predict the biomechanical behavior of human and artificial humeri [ 35 ]. If boundary conditions are estimated, beam theory could approximate current results...

...Kinon Chen; James D. Weiland There is an increasing need to understand the mechanical properties of human orbital fat and its encapsulating connective tissue (OFCT), but such knowledge is not available in the current literature. The purpose of the present study is to examine the mechanical...

... devices skin biomechanics human kinematics scapula shoulder joint One of the major technical challenges in the noninvasive measurement of in vivo kinematics has been the movement of the skin relative to the bone ( 1 2 ). Much of the research in compensating for skin movement has...

..., and test dummies, animal model studies can aid in these investigations. This study documents age effects on the mechanical properties of parietal bone and coronal suture in porcine infants and correlates the bending properties of the bone to existing human infant data. Three beam specimens were cut from...

...Weixin Shen; Yuqing Niu; Robert F. Mattrey; Adam Fournier; Jackie Corbeil; Yuko Kono; James H. Stuhmiller This study developed and validated finite element (FE) models of swine and human thoraxes and abdomens that had subject-specific anatomies and could accurately and efficiently predict body...

...C. L. Schwartz-Dabney; P. C. Dechow Ultrasonic determination of elastic properties in human craniofacial cortical bone is problematic because of a lack of information about the principal material axes, and because the cortex is often thinner than in long bones. This study investigated solutions...