Personnel

• Glen L. Niebur, Associate Professor, Laboratory Director
• Carl Berasi (BS 09)
  • Mechanical testing and microdamage imaging
• Edytka Christner, M.S. Student
  • Nonlinear FEA formulations
• Yifei Dai, Ph.D. Student
  • Lumbar spinal fusions
• Jacqueline Garrison, Ph.D. Student (Bioengineering)
  • Fracture toughness and monotonic damage of trabecular bone
• Zachary Kaltz, Ph.D. Student
  • Fatigue damage of trabecular bone
• Mike O'Brien (BSME 08)
  • Mechanical testing of rabbit lumbar spinal fusion
• Rachel Paietta (BSME 08)
  • Microdamage and microfracture in damaged trabecular bone
• Xiutao Shi, Ph.D. Student
  • Computational simulation of damage
• Ziheng Wu, Ph.D. Student
  • Computational simulation of bone indentation and viscoelasticity

Tissue Mechanics Lab Personnel, Fall 2007 from left to right: Rachel Paietta, Jackie Garrison, Carl Berasi, Yifei Dai, Dr. Glen Niebur, Ziheng Wu, Zach Kaltz, Mike O'Brien, Edytka Christner, Xiutao Shi

Alumni

Graduate students

• Tara Shepherd, M.S. 2007, US Food and Drug Administration
  • Viscoelasticity and damage in cortical bone
• Xiangyi Liu, Ph.D. 2006, Engineer, ABAQUS Inc.
  • Computational simulations of trabecular bone mechanics
  • Computational modeling of tissue ingrowth scaffolds
• Brent Mitchell, MSME 2006, Engineer, Osteotech
  • Design of tissue ingrowth scaffolds
• Chaodi Li, Post-doctoral researcher 2004-2005, 3M Corporation
  • Modeling of soft tissue growth
• Xiang Wang, Ph.D. 2005, Post-doctoral researcher, UC Davis
  • Damage susceptiblity of trabecular bone
  • Three dimensional imaging of microdamage in bone
• Cassi Shelly, M.S. 2004, Boeing
  • Biomechanical analsysis of interbody fusion of the lumbar spine

Undergraduate Students

• Sandra Zapata (BSME 08, Florida Atlantic University, McNair Scholar)
  • Mechanical testing and microdamage imaging
• Connie Slaboch (BSME 07)
  • Damage mechanics of trabecular bone in transverse loading
• Caitlin Feely (BSME 08)
  • Bone viscoelasticity
• Andrew Henebry (05)
  • Design of a fluid perfusion chamber for cortical bone staining
  • High-pressure perfusion of contrast agents in bone
• Kevin Hess (06)
• Mike Rehmer (06)
  • Microdamage quantification in trabecular bone
  • Three dimensional modeling of a beaded tissue ingrowth scaffold
• Mary Phillips (07)
  • Three dimensional imaging of microdamge in trabecular bone
• Dan Tyska, B.S. 2004, Ph.D. Student, University of Notre Dame
  • Mechanics of bending a porous foam
• Jordan Ryan, B.S. 2004
  • Distribution of mechanical properties within lumbar vertebrae
• Dan Masse B.S., 2004, Engineer, Markem Corporation
  • Three dimensional imaging of damage in trabecular bone
• Meghan Perry-Eaton, M.E.M.E. 2005, Lockheed Martin
  • Motion analysis
• Casey Korecki, B.S. 2003, Ph.D. Student, University of Vermont
  • Effects of Vitamin-D on the mechanical properties of mouse femora