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Book chapterHalewood C, Masouros S, Amis AA, 2015,
Structure and function of the menisci
, Meniscal Allograft Transplantation. A comprehensive review., Editors: Getgood, Spalding, Cole, Gersoff, Verdonk, ISBN: 978-0-9558873-5-2 -
Conference paperVillette CC, Phillips ATM, Zaharie DT, 2015,
Frangible optimised lower limb surrogate for assessing underbelly blast injury
, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury -
Conference paperKoziakova M, Harris K, Campos-Pires R, et al., 2015,
The neuroprotective efficacy of noble gases in an in vitro model of ischemic brain injury.
, British Neuroscience Association, Publisher: BNA -
Conference paperCampos-Pires R, Sebastiani A, Hirnet T, et al., 2015,
Xenon provides short term & long term neuroprotection in an in vivo model of traumatic brain injury
, British Neuroscience Associaton -
Conference paperCampos-Pires R, Armstrong S, Sebastiani A, et al., 2015,
Xenon provides short term & long term neuroprotection in an in vivo model of traumatic brain injury.
, BNA Festival of Neuroscience, Pages: 1-1 -
Journal articlePhillips ATM, Villette CC, Modenese L, 2015,
Femoral bone mesoscale structural architecture prediction using musculoskeletal and finite element modelling
, International Biomechanics, Vol: 2, Pages: 43-61, ISSN: 2333-5432Through much of the anatomical and clinical literature bone is studied with a focus on its structural architecture, while it is rare for bone to be modelled using a structural mechanics as opposed to a continuum mechanics approach in the engineering literature. A novel mesoscale structural model of the femur is presented in which truss and shell elements are used to represent trabecular and cortical bone, respectively. Structural optimisation using a strain-based bone adaptation algorithm is incorporated within a musculoskeletal and finite element modelling framework to predict the structure of the femur subjected to two loading scenarios; a single load case corresponding to the frame of maximum hip joint contact force during walking and a full loading regime consisting of multiple load cases from five activities of daily living. The use of the full loading regime compared to the single load case has a profound influence on the predicted trabecular and cortical structure throughout the femur, with dramatic volume increases in the femoral shaft and the distal femur, and regional increases at the femoral neck and greater trochanter in the proximal femur. The mesoscale structural model subjected to the full loading regime shows agreement with the observed structural architecture of the femur while the structural approach has potential application in bone fracture prediction, prevention and treatment. The mesoscale structural approach achieves the synergistic goals of computational efficiency similar to a macroscale continuum approach and a resolution nearing that of a microscale continuum approach.
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Conference paperVillette CC, Phillips ATM, 2015,
Predictive mesoscale structural modelling of bone informed by microscale poroelastic analyses
, XXV congress of the International Society of Biomechanics -
Conference paperZaharie D, Villette C, Phillips A, 2015,
FRANGIBLE OPTIMISED LOWER LIMB SURROGATE FOR ASSESSING INJURY CAUSED BY UNDERBELLY BLAST
, XV International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics -
Journal articleCampos-Pires R, Armstrong SP, Sebastiani A, et al., 2015,
Xenon improves neurologic outcome and reduces secondary injury following trauma in an in vivo model of traumatic brain injury
, Critical Care Medicine, Vol: 43, Pages: 149-158, ISSN: 1530-0293Objectives: To determine the neuroprotective efficacy of the inert gas xenon following traumatic brain injury and to determine whether application of xenon has a clinically relevant therapeutic time window.Design: Controlled animal study.Setting: University research laboratory.Subjects: Male C57BL/6N mice (n = 196).Interventions: Seventy-five percent xenon, 50% xenon, or 30% xenon, with 25% oxygen (balance nitrogen) treatment following mechanical brain lesion by controlled cortical impact.Measurements and Main Results: Outcome following trauma was measured using 1) functional neurologic outcome score, 2) histological measurement of contusion volume, and 3) analysis of locomotor function and gait. Our study shows that xenon treatment improves outcome following traumatic brain injury. Neurologic outcome scores were significantly (p < 0.05) better in xenon-treated groups in the early phase (24 hr) and up to 4 days after injury. Contusion volume was significantly (p < 0.05) reduced in the xenon-treated groups. Xenon treatment significantly (p < 0.05) reduced contusion volume when xenon was given 15 minutes after injury or when treatment was delayed 1 or 3 hours after injury. Neurologic outcome was significantly (p < 0.05) improved when xenon treatment was given 15 minutes or 1 hour after injury. Improvements in locomotor function (p < 0.05) were observed in the xenon-treated group, 1 month after trauma.Conclusions: These results show for the first time that xenon improves neurologic outcome and reduces contusion volume following traumatic brain injury in mice. In this model, xenon application has a therapeutic time window of up to at least 3 hours. These findings support the idea that xenon may be of benefit as a neuroprotective treatment in patients with brain trauma.
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Journal articleBonner TJ, Newell N, Karunaratne A, et al., 2015,
Strain-rate sensitivity of the lateral collateral ligament of the knee
, Journal of The Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Vol: 41, Pages: 261-270, ISSN: 1751-6161The material properties of ligaments are not well characterized at rates of deformation that occur during high-speed injuries. The aim of this study was to measure the material properties of lateral collateral ligament of the porcine stifle joint in a uniaxial tension model through strain rates in the range from 0.01 to 100/s. Failure strain, tensile modulus and failure stress were calculated. Across the range of strain rates, tensile modulus increased from 288 to 905 MPa and failure stress increased from 39.9 to 77.3 MPa. The strain-rate sensitivity of the material properties decreased as deformation rates increased, and reached a limit at approximately 1/s, beyond which there was no further significant change. In addition, time resolved microfocus small angle X-ray scattering was used to measure the effective fibril modulus (stress/fibril strain) and fibril to tissue strain ratio. The nanoscale data suggest that the contribution of the collagen fibrils towards the observed tissue-level deformation of ligaments diminishes as the loading rate increases. These findings help to predict the patterns of limb injuries that occur at different speeds and improve computational models used to assess and develop mitigation technology.
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Conference paperReichenbach T, Stefanovic A, Nin F, et al., 2015,
Otoacoustic Emission Through Waves on Reissner's Membrane
, 12th International Workshop on the Mechanics of Hearing, Publisher: AMER INST PHYSICS, ISSN: 0094-243X -
Journal articleKelly M, Arora H, Dear JP, 2014,
The comparison of various foam polymer types in composite sandwich panels subjected to full scale air blast loading
, Procedia Engineering, Vol: 88, Pages: 48-53, ISSN: 1877-7058Full scale air blast testing has been performed on a range of polymeric foam composite panels. These panels employed glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) face-sheets with different polymer foam cores, namely: Styrene acrylonitrile (SAN); Polyvinylchloride (PVC) and Polymethacrylimide (PMI). The three sandwich panels were all subjected to 100 kg TNT equivalent blast loading at a stand-off distance of 15 m, and the responses of the panels were measured using Digital Image Correlation (DIC). The extent of damage in the sandwich panels was then inspected via post-blast sectioning, and it was found that the SAN core suffered the least damage, and the PMI suffered the most. The DIC showed that the deflection of the SAN core sandwich panel was much less than the other two foam polymer cores, due to less damage meaning a greater stiffness was retained. All blast research to date is part of a programme sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
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Journal articleGopalakrishnan A, Modenese L, Phillips ATM, 2014,
A novel computational framework for deducing muscle synergies from experimental joint moments
, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, ISSN: 1662-5188Prior experimental studies have hypothesized the existence of a ‘muscle synergy’ based control scheme for producing limb movements and locomotion in vertebrates. Such synergies have been suggested to consist of fixed muscle grouping schemes with the co-activation of all muscles in a synergy resulting in limb movement. Quantitative representations of these groupings (termed muscle weightings) and their control signals (termed synergy controls) have traditionally been derived by the factorization of experimentally measured EMG. This study presents a novel approach for deducing these weightings and controls from inverse dynamic joint moments that are computed from an alternative set of experimental measurements – movement kinematics and kinetics. This technique was applied to joint moments for healthy human walking at 0.7 and 1.7 m/s, and two sets of ‘simulated’ synergies were computed based on two different criteria (1) synergies were required to minimize errors between experimental and simulated joint moments in a musculoskeletal model (pure-synergy solution) (2) along with minimizing joint moment errors, synergies also minimized muscle activation levels (optimal-synergy solution). On comparing the two solutions, it was observed that the introduction of optimality requirements (optimal-synergy) to a control strategy solely aimed at reproducing the joint moments (pure-synergy) did not necessitate major changes in the muscle grouping within synergies or the temporal profiles of synergy control signals. Synergies from both the simulated solutions exhibited many similarities to EMG derived synergies from a previously published study, thus implying that the analysis of the two different types of experimental data reveals similar, underlying synergy structures.
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Conference paperGopalakrishnan A, Modenese L, Phillips ATM, 2014,
A dynamic simulation approach for computing muscle synergies from joint moments
, 12th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering -
Journal articleEftaxiopoulou T, Macdonald W, Britzman D, et al., 2014,
Gait compensations in rats after a temporary nerve palsy quantified using temporo-spatial and kinematic parameters
, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, Vol: 232, Pages: 16-23, ISSN: 0165-0270- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 14
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Journal articleReichenbach T, Hudspeth AJ, 2014,
The physics of hearing: fluid mechanics and the active process of the inner ear
, REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS, Vol: 77, ISSN: 0034-4885- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 88
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Conference paperTchumatchenko T, Reichenbach T, 2014,
A wave of cochlear bone deformation can underlie bone conduction and otoacoustic emissions
, 12th International Workshop on the Mechanics of Hearing, Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC, ISSN: 0094-243XA sound signal is transmitted to the cochlea through vibration of the middle ear that induces a pressure difference across the cochlea’s elastic basilar membrane. In an alternative pathway for transmission, the basilar membrane can also be deflected by vibration of the cochlear bone, without participation of the middle ear. This second pathway, termed bone conduction, is increasingly used in commercial applications, namely in bone-conduction headphones that deliver sound through vibration of the skull. The mechanism of this transmission, however, remains unclear. Here, we study a cochlear model in which the cochlear bone is deformable. We show that deformation of the cochlear bone, such as resulting from bone stimulation, elicits a wave on the basilar membrane and can hence explain bone conduction. Interestingly, stimulation of the basilar membrane can in turn elicit a wave of deformation of the cochlear bone. We show that this has implications for the propagation of otoacoustic emissions: these can emerge from the cochlea through waves of bone deformation.
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Journal articleSingleton JAG, Gibb IE, Bull AMJ, et al., 2014,
Blast-mediated traumatic amputation: evidence for a revised, multiple injury mechanism theory
, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, Vol: 160, Pages: 175-179, ISSN: 0035-8665- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 9
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Journal articleRamasamy A, Newell N, Masouros S, 2014,
From the battlefield to the laboratory: the use of clinical data analysis in developing models of lower limb blast injury
, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, Vol: 160, Pages: 117-120, ISSN: 0035-8665 -
Journal articleSingleton JAG, Walker NM, Gibb IE, et al., 2014,
Case suitability for definitive through knee amputation following lower extremity blast trauma: analysis of 146 combat casualties, 2008-2010
, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS, Vol: 160, Pages: 187-190, ISSN: 0035-8665- Author Web Link
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- Citations: 1
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