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Kaveh Laksari

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Nonlinear viscoelastic wave propagation in brain tissue.
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
- Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Experimental and computational analysis of brain surrogate deformations under linear impact.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
- University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Interests

Teaching

Biomechanics, numerical methods, continuum mechanics, tissue biomechanics

Research

My research focus is on the field of biomechanics in general and injury biomechanics in particular. I have worked on modeling and preventing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in contact sports, and on modeling arteria wall tissue with a focus on high-rate loadings that could lead to loss of mechanical integrity and eventual dissection. I am also working on using high-performance computing to model patient-specific cerebral hemodynamics in stroke patients.

Courses

Num. Methods in BME

BME 302 (Spring 2019)

Biomechanical Engr

AME 466 (Fall 2018)
AME 466 (Fall 2017)
AME 566 (Fall 2018)
AME 566 (Fall 2017)
BME 466 (Fall 2018)
BME 466 (Fall 2017)
BME 566 (Fall 2018)
BME 566 (Fall 2017)

Directed Research

BME 492 (Fall 2018)
BME 492 (Spring 2018)

Rsrch Meth Biomed Engr

BME 597G (Fall 2018)
BME 597G (Fall 2017)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

Chuan, Y. T., Mohler, J., Dohm, M., Laksari, K., Najafi, B., & Toosizadeh, N. (2018). The Effect of Pain Relief on Daily Physical Activity: In-Home Objective Physical Activity Assessment in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients after Paravertebral Spinal Block. Sensors, 18(9), 3048.
Laksari, K., Fanton, M., Wu, L. C., Nguyen, T. H., Kurt, M., Giordano, C., Kelly, E., O'Keeffe, E., Wallace, E., Doherty, C., & others, . (2018). Multi-directional dynamic model for traumatic brain injury detection. arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07731.
Laksari, K., Kurt, M., Babaee, H., Kleiven, S., & Camarillo, D. (2018). Mechanistic insights into human brain impact dynamics through modal analysis. Physical review letters, 120(13), 138101.
Ahuja, C., Khazaei, M., Baig, S., Merchant, J., Chan, P., Fehlings, M., Alshareef, A., Giudice, J. S., Forman, J., Panzer, M. B., & others, . (2017). Abstracts from The 35th Annual National Neurotrauma Symposium July 7--12, 2017 Snowbird, Utah. Journal of Neurotrauma, 34(13), A--1.
Kuo, C., Wu, L. C., Ye, P. P., Laksari, K., Camarillo, D. B., & Kuhl, E. (2017). Pilot findings of brain displacements and deformations during roller coaster rides. Journal of neurotrauma, 34(22), 3198--3205.
Kurt, M., Laksari, K., Kuo, C., Grant, G. A., & Camarillo, D. B. (2017). Modeling and optimization of airbag helmets for preventing head injuries in bicycling. Annals of biomedical engineering, 45(4), 1148--1160.
Laksari, K. (2017). Dissertation Details.
Rastgar, A. M., Laksari, K., Assari, S., & Darvish, K. (2017). Mechanical behavior of porcine thoracic aorta in physiological and supra-physiological intraluminal pressures. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 231(4), 326--336.
Shafieian, M., Laksari, K., Darvish, K., & Crandall, J. (2017). Material Properties of Brain Tissue under Complex Shear and Compression Loading.
Wu, L. C., Kuo, C., Loza, J., Kurt, M., Laksari, K., Yanez, L. Z., Senif, D., Anderson, S. C., Miller, L. E., Urban, J. E., & others, . (2017). Detection of American football head impacts using biomechanical features and support vector machine classification. Scientific reports, 8(1), 855.
Laksari, K., Shahmirzadi, D., Acosta, C. J., & Konofagou, E. (2016). Energy-based constitutive modelling of local material properties of canine aortas. Open Science, 3(9), 160365.
Rastgar-Agah, M., Laksari, K., Assari, S., & Darvish, K. (2016). Mechanical instability of aorta due to intraluminal pressure. International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 8(01), 1650002.
Wu, L. C., Laksari, K., Kuo, C., Luck, J. F., Kleiven, S., Cameron, R., & Camarillo, D. B. (2016). Bandwidth and sample rate requirements for wearable head impact sensors. Journal of biomechanics, 49(13), 2918--2924.
Hernandez, F., Wu, L. C., Yip, M. C., Laksari, K., Hoffman, A. R., Lopez, J. R., Grant, G. A., Kleiven, S., & Camarillo, D. B. (2015). Six degree-of-freedom measurements of human mild traumatic brain injury. Annals of biomedical engineering, 43(8), 1918--1934.
Laksari, K., Assari, S., Seibold, B., Sadeghipour, K., & Darvish, K. (2015). Computational simulation of the mechanical response of brain tissue under blast loading. Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 14(3), 459--472.

Proceedings Publications

Agah, M. R., Laksari, K., & Darvish, K. (2012, June). Hyperelastic Behavior of Porcine Aorta under Sub-Failure Inflation Loading. In Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Laksari, K., Darvish, K., & Sadeghipour, K. (2012, May). Nonlinear Shock Wave Propagation in Soft Tissues as a Mechanism of Injury. In Injury Biomechanics Symposium.
Laksari, K., Wu, L., Nguyen, T., Kurt, M., Fanton, M., Ruan, J., Barbat, S., & Camarillo, D. (2017). MULTI-DIRECTIONAL DYNAMIC INJURY METRIC FOR MILD BRAIN TRAUMA DETECTION. In JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 34.
Assari, S., Laksari, K., Barbe, M., & Darvish, K. (2013). Cerebral blood pressure rise during blast exposure in a rat model of blast-induced traumatic brain injury. In From the ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 3.
Kermani, G., Laksari, K., & Darvish, K. (2013). Biomechanical Properties of Human Aorta from Dynamic Biaxial Loading. In Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2013 39th Annual Northeast.
Laksari, K., Assari, S., & Darvish, K. (2013). COMPUTATIONAL COMPARISON OF SHOCK WAVE PROPOAGATION IN EXPLOSIVE BLAST AND SHOCK TUBE EXPERIMENTS. In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.
Laksari, K., Assari, S., & Darvish, K. (2013). Computational Simulation of Shock Tube and the Effect of Shock Thickness on Strain-Rates. In Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2013 39th Annual Northeast.
Agah, M. R., Laksari, K., & Darvish, K. (2012). Investigating the hyperelasticity of porcine aorta under sub-failure loading. In Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2012 38th Annual Northeast.
Agah, M. R., Laksari, K., Darvish, K., & Rachev, A. (2012). Buckling of Porcine Aorta under Static and Dynamic Loading. In American Society of Mechanical Engineering Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Laksari, K., Agah, M. R., & Darvish, K. (2012). Hyperelastic Behavior of Porcine Aorta in Sub-Injury Pressures. In American Society of Mechanical Engineering Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Laksari, K., Agah, M. R., Rachev, A., & Darvish, K. (2012). Investigating the effects of dynamic and static loading on the stability of porcine aorta. In Bioengineering Conference (NEBEC), 2012 38th Annual Northeast.
Shafieian, M., Laksari, K., Darvish, K., & Crandall, J. (2012). Development of a constitutive model for brain tissue under multiaxial loading. In Proceedings of the 2012 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury.
Laksari, K., Darvish, K., & Sadeghipour, K. (2011). Shock Wave as a Mechanism of Injury in Soft Tissues. In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference.
Laksari, K., Shafieian, M., Darvish, K., & Sadeghipour, K. (2011). Shock wave propagation as a mechanism of injury in nonlinear viscoelastic soft tissues. In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition.
Laksari, K., Assari, S., & Darvish, K. (2010). Modeling Linear Head Impact and the Effect of Brain-Skull Interface. In 26th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference SBEC 2010, April 30-May 2, 2010, College Park, Maryland, USA.

Others

Hernandez, F., Laksari, K., & Camarillo, D. B. (2015). System for redirecting head impact force.
Laksari, K. (2013). Nonlinear viscoelastic wave propagation in brain tissue.
Laksari, K. (2009). Experimental and Computational Analysis of Brain Surrogate Material Under Linear Impact.