PUBLICATIONS

Editorials & Perspectives

Fawzi AL, Franck C. Low-level blasts from heavy weapons can cause traumatic brain injury − 2 engineers explain the physics of invisible cell death The Conversation. 2024 Feb. Link

Fawzi AL, Franck C. Beyond symptomatic diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury. Concussion. 2023 May;8(2):CNC109.

DOI: 10.2217/cnc-2023-0005

Philip V. Bayly, Perspective: Challenges and opportunities in computational brain mechanics research: How can we use recent experimental data to improve models of brain mechanics?, Brain Multiphysics, Volume 4, 2023, 100075, ISSN 2666-5220,

DOI: 10.1016/j.brain.2023.100075

Predicting Injury from Kinematics & FE Models

Nakarmi S, Wang Y, Fawzi AL, Franck C, Carlsen RW, Estimating Brain Injury Risk from Shipborne Underwater Blasts Using a High-fidelity Finite Element Head Model, Military Medicine, January/February 2025

DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usae309

Wan, Yang, Wenqiang Fang, Rika Wright Carlsen, Haneesh Kesari, A Finite Rotation, Small Strain 2D Elastic Head Model, With Applications in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, October 2023.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105362

Wan Y, Fawzi AL, Kesari H. Determining rigid body motion from accelerometer data through the square-root of a negative semi-definite tensor, with applications in mild traumatic brain injury. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2022 Feb 15

Terpsma R, Carlsen RW, Szalkowski R, Malave S, Fawzi AL, Franck C, Hovey C. Head impact modeling to support a rotational combat helmet drop test. Military medicine. 2021 Sep 11.

Carlsen RW, Fawzi AL, Wan Y, Kesari H, Franck C. A quantitative relationship between rotational head kinematics and brain tissue strain from a 2-D parametric finite element analysis. Brain Multiphysics. 2021 Jan 1;2:100024.

Rahaman MM, Fang W, Fawzi AL, Wan Y, Kesari H. An accelerometer-only algorithm for determining the acceleration field of a rigid body, with application in studying the mechanics of mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020 Oct 1;143:104014.

Brain Injury Sensors

Kachhadiya J, Romero J Kou S, Wan Y, Kesari H, Szalkowski R, J Andrews. Lightweight Wearable Headband With Flexible Hybrid Electronics for Head-Kinematic Monitoring and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Risk Detection, IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1-4, April 2025, Art no. 5501304,

DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3544119

Moradi Y, Lee J, Armani AM, Detecting disruption of HER2 membrane protein organization in cell membranes with nanoscale precision, ACS Sensors, 9 (1), 52-61 (2024).

DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01437

Kachhadiya J, Andrews J, Fabrication Techniques for Multi-Layer Printed Flexible Hybrid Sensor Systems, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Boston, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4,

DOI: 10.1109/FLEPS57599.2023.10220387.

KaramiMohammadi N, Andrews J, Effect of Voltage Boundary Conditions on the Sensitivity and Design of Coplanar Capacitive Sensors, in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1-4, May 2023, Art no. 2500704,

DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3267045.

Developing Advanced Materials

Cai J, Chin K, Gupta A, Boydston AJ, Thevamaran R, Overcoming stiffness-damping trade-off with structural gradients in 3D printed elastomeric gyroid lattices. Experimental Mechanics. 2025

DOI: 10.1007/s11340-025-01165-2

Sridhara S, Suresh K A Visual Representation of Engineering Catalogs using Variational Autoencoders, Journal of Mechanical Design. 2025 Apr 1;147(4).

DOI: 10.1115/1.4067477

Chawla K., Cai J., Thompson D., Thevamaran R. (2023): Superior thermal transport properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes tailored through mesoscale architectures. Carbon. 2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118526

Chen R., Cai J., Chin K., Wang S., Boydston A.J., Thevamaran R., Gopalan P. (2023): Block Copolymer Additives for Toughening 3D Printable Epoxy Resin. GIANT. 2023, Invited article

DOI: 10.1016/j.giant.2023.100204

Maheswaran B, Chawla K, Thevamaran R. Mitigating Oblique Impacts by Unraveling of Buckled Carbon Nanotubes in Helmet Liners. Experimental Mechanics. 2024 Feb;64(2):197-209.

DOI: 10.1007/s11340-023-01013-1

Chawla K., Gupta A., Thevamaran R. (2023): Disrupting density-dependent property scaling in hierarchically architected foams. ACS Nano.

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01223

Cai J., Griesbach C., Ahnen S., Thevamaran R. (2023): Dynamic hardness evolution in metals from impact induced gradient dislocation density. Acta Materialia.

DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118807

Chandrasekhar, A., Sridhara, S., Suresh, K. Graded Multiscale Topology Optimization using Neural Networks, Volume 175, Advances in Engineering Software, January 2023.

DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2022.103359

Chawla K., Gupta A., Bhardwaj AS., Thevamaran R. (2022): Superior mechanical properties by exploiting size-effects and multiscale interactions in hierarchically architected foams. Extreme Mechanics Letters.

DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2022.101899

Sridhara, S., Chandrasekhar, A., Suresh, K. A Generalized Framework for Microstructural Optimization using Neural Networks, Volume 223, Materials and Design, November 2022.
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111213

Characterizing & Modeling Advanced Materials

Foster M, Morrison D, Landauer AK, Herynk MD, Lamberson L, Assessment of frequency and amplitude dependence on the cyclic degradation of polyurethane foams, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, e55846. (2024)

DOI: 10.1002/app.55846.

Morrison D, Morton J, Foster M, Lamberson L, Temperature Dependent Dynamic Response of Open-Cell Polyurethane Foams, Exp Mech 64 (2024) 929–943.

DOI: 10.1007/s11340-024-01054-0

Tao J, Sun X, Franck C, Experimental Approach for Characterizing the Nonlinear, Time- and Temperature-dependent Constitutive Response of Open-cell Polymer Foams, Strain, 2024

DOI: 10.1111/str.12478

Li X, Tao J, Landauer AK, Franck C, Henann DL. Large-deformation constitutive modeling of viscoelastic foams: Application to a closed-cell foam material. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2022 Apr 1;161:104807.

Monn MA, Vijaykumar K, Kochiyama S, Kesari H. Lamellar architectures in stiff biomaterials may not always be templates for enhancing toughness in composites. Nature communications. 2020 Jan 17;11(1):1-2.

Pagano SJ, Jewell PA, Lamberson LE. A tunable modified-Hopkinson impact fatigue device. Review of Scientific Instruments. 2019 Oct 1;90(10):105104.

Koumlis S, Lamberson L. Strain rate dependent compressive response of open cell polyurethane foam. Experimental Mechanics. 2019 Sep;59(7):1087-103.

Koumlis S, Pagano S, del Rey GR, Kim Y, Jewell P, Noh M, Lamberson L. Drop on demand colloidal suspension inkjet patterning for DIC. Experimental Techniques. 2019 Apr;43(2):137-48.

Cellular Injury Tolerances

Roper C, Hagness SC, Ma C, TEM Cell With a High-Transparency Aperture for Homogeneous Microwave Absorption and Real-Time Viewing of Thermoelastic Expansion of Tissue. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (2024).

DOI: 10.1109/JERM.2024.3493623

Bin Hossain MN, Adnan A, Mechanical characterization of spectrin at the molecular level, Sci Rep, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 16631, Jul. 2024,

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67500-0.

Bin Hossain MN, Adnan A, Mechanical characterization of spectrin at the molecular level, Sci Rep, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 16631, Jul. 2024,

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67500-0.

Rifat MNI, Adnan A, Axonal varicosity leading to combined effect of stretching and swelling on action potential transmission: A computational study, Multiscale Science and Engineering, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 33–47, Mar. 2024,

DOI: 10.1007/s42493-024-00112-y.

Wan Y, Gonzalez-Cruz R, Hoffman-Kim D, Kesari H. A mechanics theory for the exploration of a high-throughput, sterile 3D in vitro traumatic brain injury model. Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology. 2024 Aug;23(4):1179-96

DOI: 10.1007/s10237-024-01832-8

Gulati R, Rudraraju S. Spatio-temporal modeling of saltatory conduction in neurons using poisson-nernst–planck treatment and estimation of conduction velocity. Brain Multiphysics. 2023 Nov 30:100061.

McLaughlin RM, Top I, Laguna A, Hernandez C, Katz H, Livi LL, Kramer L, Zambuto SG, Hoffman-Kim D. Cortical spheroid model for studying the effects of ischemic brain injury. In Vitro Models 2023.

DOI: 10.1007/s44164-023-00046-z.

Yang J, Cramer III HC, Bremer EC, Buyukozturk S, Yin Y, Franck C. Mechanical characterization of agarose hydrogels and their inherent dynamic instabilities at ballistic to ultra-high strain-rates via inertial microcavitation. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2022 Feb 1;51:101572.

Estrada JB, Cramer III HC, Scimone MT, Buyukozturk S, Franck C. Neural cell injury pathology due to high-rate mechanical loading. Brain Multiphysics. 2021 Oct;2:100034

Sevetson JL, Theyel B, Hoffman-Kim D. Cortical spheroids display oscillatory network dynamics. Lab Chip 21(23): 4586-4595. 2021.

DOI: 10.1039/d1lc00737h.

Scimone MT, Cramer III HC, Hopkins P, Estrada JB, Franck C. Application of mild hypothermia successfully mitigates neural injury in a 3D in-vitro model of traumatic brain injury. Plos one. 2020 Apr 1;15(4):e0229520.

Sevetson, JL, Local Network Activity in Three-Dimensional Neural Microtissues. 2020. Neuroscience Theses and Dissertations, Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.

Scimone, MT. Biomechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury in vitro and the Neuroprotective Effects of Mild Hypothermia Post-Injury. 2019. PhD thesis, Brown University, Providence.

Scimone MT, Cramer III HC, Bar-Kochba E, Amezcua R, Estrada JB, Franck C. Modular approach for resolving and mapping complex neural and other cellular structures and their associated deformation fields in three dimensions. Nature protocols. 2018 Dec;13(12):3042-64.

Bar-Kochba E, Scimone MT, Estrada JB, Franck C. Strain and rate-dependent neuronal injury in a 3D in vitro compression model of traumatic brain injury. Scientific Reports. 2016 Aug 2;6:30550.

In-vivo Brain Imaging

Eckstein KN, Yoon D, Ruding M, Balouchzadeh R, Thompson-Mazzeo A, Okamoto RJ, Johnson CL, McGarry MD, Bayly PV, Mechanically anisotropic phantoms for magnetic resonance elastography. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Dec 3.

DOI: 10.1002/mrm.30394.

Wang S, Eckstein KN, Okamoto RJ, McGarry MDJ, Johnson CL, Bayly PV, Force and energy transmission at the brain-skull interface of the minipig in vivo and post-mortem. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2025 Jan;161:106775.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2024.106775

Wang S, Eckstein KN, Guertler CA, Johnson CL, Okamoto RJ, McGarry MDJ, Bayly PV, Post-mortem changes of anisotropic mechanical properties in the porcine brain assessed by MR elastography. Brain Multiphys. 2024 Jun;6:100091.

DOI: 10.1016/j.brain.2024.100091

Kailash KA, Guertler CA, Johnson CL, Okamoto RJ, Bayly PV. Measurement of relative motion of the brain and skull in the mini-pig in-vivo. J Biomech. 2023 Jul;156:111676.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111676.

Wang S, Guertler CA, Okamoto RJ, Johnson CL, McGarry MDJ, Bayly PV. Mechanical stiffness and anisotropy measured by MRE during brain development in the minipig. Neuroimage. 2023 Aug 15;277:120234.

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120234.

Jyoti D, McGarry M, Caban-Rivera DA, Van Houten E, Johnson CL, Paulsen K. Transversely-isotropic brain in vivo MR elastography with anisotropic damping. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2023 May;141:105744.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105744.

MRI Directed Neuromodulation Therapies

Ren X, Bok I, Vareberg A, Hai A. (2023) Stimulation-mediated Reverse Engineering of Silent Neural Networks J Neurophys 129(6):1505-1514

DOI: 10.1152/jn.00100.2023

Bhatt S, Masterson E, Zhu T, Eizadi J, George J, Graupe N, Vareberg A, Phillips J, Bok I, Dwyer M, Ashtiani A, Hai A. (2023) Wireless in vivo Recording of Cortical Activity by an Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistor Sens Actuators B Chem 19(4):046003

DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2023.133549