Ibrahim Guven, Ph.D.

The Computational Multiscale Mechanics Laboratory focuses research on understanding failure initiation and propagation in aerospace structures by combined experimental and computational approaches. We are an actively contributing research group in the development of peridynamics, an emerging computational field. Our research is funded by NASA, US Air Force, Boeing, and Raytheon.

Joao Soares, Ph.D.
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The Engineered Tissue Multiscale Mechanics & Modeling (ETM3) Laboratory aims to develop highly-integrative experimental-computational approaches for cardiovascular tissue engineering, in particular, for small-caliber engineered tissue vascular grafts for coronary artery bypass surgery and epicardial restraint patches for myocardium support after infarction.

Engineered Tissue Multiscale Mechanics & Modeling (ETM3) Research Modus Operandi. Simulation, experimentation, and theoretical development in tissue engineering must supplement each other – our research focus on the development of theoretical models/frameworks to improve fundamental and mechanistic understanding of engineered tissue growth & development, to describe/predict empirically observed phenomena, and to employ them as rational tools for exploration of incubation and implantation protocols. Specifically, our research program relies in a three-pronged approach involving close-loop experiments-theory-simulation: (1) we develop theoretical frameworks describing biomedical phenomena, (2) we deploy them into in silico tools for biomedical simulation; and (3) we carefully design and conduct in vitro and in vivo experiments for validation and refinement.

John E. Speich, Ph.D.
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The MechanoUrology, Biomechanics and Robotics Laboratory is researching ways to develop improved clinical biomechanical diagnostics for overactive bladder (OAB), which affects ~20% of adults in the U.S. We are currently working to understand the complex biomechanical mechanisms responsible for dynamic elasticity and spontaneous rhythmic bladder contractions in humans and animal models of OAB.

Technologies, techniques and skills used in the MechanoUrology Lab.