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This community features research and educational materials created by graduate students in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.
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Babaiasl, Mahdieh
This collection contains research and educational materials created by Mahdieh Babaiasl in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WSU. -
Falahati, Mojtaba
This collection contains research and educational materials by Mojtaba Falahati in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at WSU. -
Richardson, Ian
This collection features research materials by Ian Richardson, a Ph.D. student in the Material Science and Engineering Program at WSU.
Recent Submissions
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Fracture-directed Waterjet Needle Steering: Design, Modeling, and Path Planning
(2020-05)Steerable needle technology has the promise of improving outcomes by enhancing the accuracy of different therapies and biopsies, as they can be steered to a target location around obstacles. Achieving small radius of ... -
Resultant Radius of Curvature of Stylet-and-Tube Steerable Needles Based on the Mechanical Properties of the Soft Tissue, and the Needle
(2020)Steerable needles have been widely researched in recent years, and they have multiple potential roles in the medical area. The flexibility and capability of avoiding obstacles allow the steerable needles to be applied in ... -
Predictive Mathematical, and finite element model for cut depth of waterjet for medical applications
(2019)Water-jet has already been used in several industrial applications such as mining, cutting materials, drilling, and cleaning. Recently, this technology has been used in medical applications such as in surgery, dissection ... -
Waterjet fracture-directed steerable needles
(2018-07)The focus of this proposal is on the new classes of steerable needles namely fracture-directed steerable needles, and two approaches to achieve this that are tube and stylet method, and water-jet method. Steerable needles ... -
Water-jet Steerable Needles
(2018)Water-jet technology has been used extensively for decades industrially for many applications including mining, plastic, metal, stone, wood, and produce cutting. The use of water-jet in medical applications has been developed ... -
Experimental Effervescence and Freezing Point Depression Measurements of Nitrogen in Liquid Methane-Ethane Mixtures to Support an Extraterrestrial Submarine for Titan
(2017)This supporting video shows the experimental measurements that were conducted for the article "Experimental Effervescence and Freezing Point Depression Measurements of Nitrogen in Liquid Methane-Ethane Mixtures to Support ... -
Fracture-Directed Steerable Needles
(3/11/19)Steerable needles hold the promise of improving the accuracy of both therapies and biopsies as they are able to steer to a target location around obstructions, correct for disturbances, and account for movement of internal ... -
Towards Water-jet Steerable Needles
(8/26/18)Water-jet technology has been used extensively for decades industrially for many applications including mining, plastic, metal, stone, wood, and produce cutting. The use of water-jet in medical applications has been developed ... -
Predicting Depth of Cut of Water-jet in Soft Tissue Simulants based on Finite Element Analysis with the Application to Fracture-directed Water-jet Steerable Needles
(4/3/19)Water-jet technology has been used recently in medical applications including surgery, soft tissue resection, bone cutting, and wound debridement. The ability to measure the depth of cut of water-jet is important in these ... -
Predictive Mechanics-based Model for Depth-of-Cut (DOC) of Waterjet in Soft-Tissue for Waterjet-assisted Medical Applications
(4/22/20)The use of waterjet technology is now prevalent in medical applications including surgery, soft tissue resection, bone cutting, waterjet steerable needles, and wound debridement. The depth of the cut (DOC) of a waterjet ... -
Duty Cycling of Waterjet Can Improve Steerability and Radius-of-Curvature (ROC) for Waterjet Steerable Needles
(4/23/20)Steerable needles are a type of medical devices that can steer around obstacles to reach to a target location and thus can improve the accuracy of medical procedures. Radius-of-Curvature (ROC) is of paramount importance ... -
Smart polymers and nanocomposites for 3D and 4D printing
(6/20/20)Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive applications in sensors, actuators, soft ...