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Spring 2016
When parts are designed and manufactured, considerations for their geometry, material, function, and manufacturability need to be taken into account, and it would be efficient to address all these aspects concurrently. From this perspective, topology optimization is useful and gaining the...
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Fall 2012
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the geometric variations in the load-bearing joints among individuals. Two existing concepts in mathematics were introduced and their application in computational biomechanics was completely novel: 1) computing the depth of penetration between...
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Fall 2020
The pelvic bone is one of most stressed bones in the human body due to its essential task of weight-bearing of upper body. However, pelvic bone fractures usually occur as a result of high-rate impact loads, high cycle with low magnitude (e.g., stress fractures) or bone diseases such as pelvic...