School of Mechanical Engineering Prof. Zohar Yosibash

27 בנובמבר 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 
 
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School of Mechanical Engineering Prof. Zohar Yosibash

 

 

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Monday, November 27, 2017 at 14:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

 

An afternoon talk on femurs, arteries and high order finite element methods

Prof. Zohar Yosibash

School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Predicting the mechanical response of human femurs and arteries is of major clinical importanceare for diagnostic purposes as well as for patient-specific treatment. Such prediction capabilities are being described which involve the combination of high order finite element (FE) methods, medical imaging and experimental observations.

Our research on human femurs will first be addressed, where we use quantitative computerized tomography (qCT scans) that enables a computer realization of subject-specific bone models. Combining qCT scans with high order FE simulations and a large set of experiments provide the opportunity to accurately simulate patient-specific femur’s response, allowing orthopedic surgeons to plan a proper patient specific treatment. Examples of the use of our methods in clinical practice for treatment of metastatic bone tumors will be provided.

If time allows, experimental and numerical methods for the analysis of human arteries will be addressed. Arteries are complex anisotropic structures undergoing large deformations and strains and are subject to active response due to contraction of smooth muscle cells. Attempts to properly describe their response will be described.

About the Lecturer

Prof. Yosibash received his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion (87), his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Tel-Aviv Unviersity (92) and D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, USA (94). He joined Ben-Gurion University in 1995 and since 2008 he is a full professor of mechanical engineering. He has been a visiting professor at Brown Univ from 2002-2007, and at the Technical Univ of Munich during 2010-2011. He received the Toronto prize for excellence in research at BGU in 2009. Prof. Yosibash was a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich (2009-2012) and serves as the scientific ambassador since 2013.  Prof. Yosibash joined the School of Mechanical Engineering at TAU in Oct 2017. He is the head of the lab for computational mechanics and experimental biomechanics at TAU and since 2015 serves as the president of the Israel Association for Computational Methods in Mechanics.

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