Welcome to the Temple University Biomechanics Laboratory, a research facility within the Mechanical Engineering Department of the College of Engineering.
At the Temple Biomechanics Lab (TBL), we primarily focus on the constitutive modeling of soft tissues and the biomechanics of thoracic and brain injuries. We employ state-of-the-art experimental and computational methods to investigate the viscoelasticity, nonlinearity, heterogeneity, anisotropy, and damage in biological and other materials relevant to safety and injury mitigation. Our research has received significant funding from organizations such as the NIH-NHLBI, American Heart Association, US Navy, US Army, PA Department of Health CURE, and DePuy Synthes. As an interdisciplinary effort, our work involves collaborative research projects with faculty members from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and the Rothman Institute, among others.
Lab Personnel
PI: Kurosh Darvish, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Suman Jaiswal, PhD
PhD Students:
Sheida Vafadar, MS
Mehrdad Swizi, MS
Tahmineh Aghabarari, MS
Fawzi M Belguet, MS
Lab Current Projects
Thoracic Injury due to Behind-Armor Ballistic Trauma
Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Kevlar and other Fibers for Bulletproof Vests
Characterization of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Mechanical Properties of Mice Aorta in a Hypertensive Model
Failure Properties of Suture Anchors for Rotator Cuff Repair
Biomechanics of Broaching for Total Hip Replacement
Effect of Blast Shockwave and High Acceleration on Li-ion Batteries
Lab Selected Recent Posters
MHSRS 2022: Effects of Impact Velocity and Chest Deformation on Lung Injury: In Vivo Model to Elucidate Behind-Armor Blunt Trauma
NEBEC 2023: The Effect of Repetition Pattern on Sub-acute Behavioral Deficits Following Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Lab in the Media
Temple Now: Crash Course
YouTube: Aortic Dissection and Rupture
Lab Alumni
Mehdi Shafieian, PhD
Kaveh Laksari, PhD
Mobin Rastgar Agah, PhD
Hossein Ghodsi, PhD
Golriz Kermani, PhD
Soroush Assari, PhD
Ji Chen, PhD
Cristina Parenti, MS
Jing Bao, MS
Alan Kaufman, MS
Julie Miller, MS
Pooyan Abbasi, MS