Low back pain is a major health condition that effects every population worldwide. It can lead to diminished physical function, decreased quality of life, and psychological distress. Although low back pain is a multifactorial condition, disc degeneration disease has been indicat…
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Explosions are associated with more than 80% of the casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Given the widespread use of thoracic protective armor, the most prevalent injury for combat personnel is blast-related traumatic brain injury (TBI). Almost 20% of veterans returning …
Several efforts have been made in the past half century to characterize the behavior of brain tissue under different modes of loading and deformation rates; however each developed model has been associated with limitations. This dissertation aims at addressing the non-linear and…
Currently, titanium alloys are used in a variety of applications, including defense, aerospace, biomedicine, and even common consumer products such as bicycles and golf clubs. In many applications such as the landing gear of aircraft and geothermal energy production, titanium co…
Finite Element models of the lumbar spine are commonly used for the study of spine mechanics and device performance, but have limited usefulness in some applications such as clinical and design phase assessments due to long analysis times. In this study a computationally efficie…
Metal forming industries are constantly looking for ways to increase their productivity and competitiveness by advancing innovative, economical, energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly metal forming techniques. Superplastic Forming (SPF) has a great potential to he one of…
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is capable of noninvasively activating neurons in the brain. TMS can induce persistent effects and is being increasingly used in both clinical and research applications. Despite this growing interest, the relationship between TMS-generated…
Additive manufacturing (AM) offers exciting advantages for the fabrication of metallic parts compared to traditional techniques, such as the ability to create complex geometries with less material waste. This is done by building arbitrary geometries in a layer-by-layer fashion, …