Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Willett, Thomas L."
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Bone collagen network integrity and transverse fracture toughness of human cortical bone
Willett, Thomas L.; Dapaah, Daniel Y.; Uppuganti, Sasidhar; Granke, Mathilde; Nyman, Jeffry S. (Elsevier, 2019-03-01)Greater understanding of the determinants of skeletal fragility is highly sought due to the great burden that bone affecting diseases and fractures have on economies, societies and health care systems. Being a complex, ... -
Extrudable hydroxyapatite/plant oil-based biopolymer nanocomposites for biomedical applications: Mechanical testing and modeling
Bahmani, Aram; Comeau, Patricia A.; Montesano, John; Willett, Thomas L. (Elsevier, 2019-07-15)Towards developing bone-inspired, high performance composite biomaterials, two nanocomposite inks, consisting of a plant oil-based biopolymer resin (soybean oil epoxidized acrylate (SOEA)) and silanized nano-hydroxyapatite ... -
Modelling the micro-damage process zone during cortical bone fracture
Dapaah, Daniel; Badaoui, Raphael; Bahmani, Aram; Montesano, John; Willett, Thomas (Elsevier, 2020-02-01)Cortical bone employs intrinsic toughening mechanisms to delay crack growth initiation and propagation hence increasing its fracture toughness. Computational models of the bone fracture process though do not explicitly ... -
mSLA-based 3D printing of acrylated epoxidized soybean oil - nano-hydroxyapatite composites for bone repair
Mondal, Dibakar; Haghpanah, Zahra; Huxman, Connor J.; Tanter, Sophie; Sun, Duo; Gorbet, Maud; Willett, Thomas L. (Elsevier, 2021-11)Structural bone allografts are used to treat critically sized segmental bone defects (CSBDs) as such defects are too large to heal naturally. Development of biomaterials with competent mechanical properties that can also ... -
Three-dimensional micromechanical assessment of bio-inspired composites with non-uniformly dispersed inclusions
Bahmani, Aram; Li, Geng; Willett, Thomas L; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2019-03-15)Bio-inspired composites with hexagonal platelet and cylindrical inclusions were studied. A novel algorithm termed staggered hardcore algorithm (SHCA) was used to rapidly generate 3D periodic representative volume elements ...