TY - CHAP A1 - Kahmann, Stephanie A1 - Hackl, Michael A1 - Wegmann, Kilian A1 - Müller, Lars-Peter A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Impact of a proximal radial shortening osteotomy on the distribution of forces and the stability of the elbow T2 - 1st YRA MedTech Symposium 2016 : April 8th / 2016 / University of Duisburg-Essen N2 - The human arm consists of the humerus (upper arm), the medial ulna and the lateral radius (forearm). The joint between the humerus and the ulna is called humeroulnar joint and the joint between the humerus and the radius is called humeroradial joint. Lateral and medial collateral ligaments stabilize the elbow. Statistically, 2.5 out of 10,000 people suffer from radial head fractures [1]. In these fractures the cartilage is often affected. Caused by the injured cartilage, degenerative diseases like posttraumatic arthrosis may occur. The resulting pain and reduced range of motion have an impact on the patient’s quality of life. Until now, there has not been a treatment which allows typical loads in daily life activities and offers good long-term results. A new surgical approach was developed with the motivation to reduce the progress of the posttraumatic arthrosis. Here, the radius is shortened by 3 mm in the proximal part [2]. By this means, the load of the radius is intended to be reduced due to a load shift to the ulna. Since the radius is the most important stabilizer of the elbow it has to be confirmed that the stability is not affected. In the first test (Fig. 1 left), pressure distributions within the humeroulnar and humeroradial joints a native and a shortened radius were measured using resistive pressure sensors (I5076 and I5027, Tekscan, USA). The humerus was loaded axially in a tension testing machine (Z010, Zwick Roell, Germany) in 50 N steps up to 400 N. From the humerus the load is transmitted through both the radius and the ulna into the hand which is fixed on the ground. In the second test (Fig. 1 right), the joint stability was investigated using a digital image correlation system to measure the displacement of the ulna. Here, the humerus is fixed with a desired flexion angle and the unconstrained forearm lies on the ground. A rope connects the load actuator with a hook fixed in the ulna. A guide roller is used so that the rope pulls the ulna horizontally when a tensile load is applied. This creates a moment about the elbow joint with a maximum value of 7.5 Nm. Measurements were performed with varying flexion angles (0°, 30°, 60°, 90°, 120°). For both tests and each measurement, seven specimens were used. Student ́s t-test was employed to determine whether the mean values of the measurements in native specimen and operated specimens differ significantly. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/40821 SP - 7 EP - 8 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Müller, Wolfram ED - Onate, E. T1 - Optimization of the flight style in ski jumping T2 - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20 - 25, 2014, Barcelona Y1 - 2014 N1 - Das Paper wurde nach der Konferenz überarbeitet. SP - 799 EP - 810 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Müller, Wolfram T1 - Effect of wind on flight style optimisation in ski jumping T2 - 15th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics ; July 9th-11th 2015, Edinburgh, UK Y1 - 2016 SP - 53 EP - 54 PB - The University of Edinburgh ; Loughborough University CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Computing olympic gold: Ski jumping as an example T2 - 1st YRA MedTech Symposium 2016 : April 8th / 2016 / University of Duisburg-Essen Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-940402-06-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/40821 SP - 54 EP - 55 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Frotscher, Ralf A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Electromechanical model of hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes cocultured with fibroblasts T2 - 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6), 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), 11-15 June 2018, Glasgow, UK N2 - The CellDrum provides an experimental setup to study the mechanical effects of fibroblasts co-cultured with hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes. Multi-scale computational models based on the Finite Element Method are developed. Coupled electrical cardiomyocyte-fibroblast models (cell level) are embedded into reaction-diffusion equations (tissue level) which compute the propagation of the action potential in the cardiac tissue. Electromechanical coupling is realised by an excitation-contraction model (cell level) and the active stress arising during contraction is added to the passive stress in the force balance, which determines the tissue displacement (tissue level). Tissue parameters in the model can be identified experimentally to the specific sample. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jean-Pierre P., de Vera A1 - Baque, Mickael A1 - Billi, Daniela A1 - Böttger, Ute A1 - Bulat, Sergey A1 - Czupalla, Markus A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - de la Torre, Rosa A1 - Elsaesser, Andreas A1 - Foucher, Frédéric A1 - Korsitzky, Hartmut A1 - Kozyrovska, Natalia A1 - Läufer, Andreas A1 - Moeller, Ralf A1 - Olsson-Francis, Karen A1 - Onofri, Silvano A1 - Sommer, Stefan A1 - Wagner, Dirk A1 - Westall, Frances T1 - The search for life on Mars and in the Solar System - strategies, logistics and infrastructures T2 - 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) N2 - The question "Are we alone in the Universe?" is perhaps the most fundamental one that affects mankind. How can we address the search for life in our Solar System? Mars, Enceladus and Europa are the focus of the search for life outside the terrestrial biosphere. While it is more likely to find remnants of life (fossils of extinct life) on Mars because of its past short time window of the surface habitability, it is probably more likely to find traces of extant life on the icy moons and ocean worlds of Jupiter and Saturn. Nevertheless, even on Mars there could still be a chance to find extant life in niches near to the surface or in just discovered subglacial lakes beneath the South Pole ice cap. Here, the different approaches for the detection of traces of life in the form of biosignatures including pre-biotic molecules will be presented. We will outline the required infrastructure for this enterprise and give examples of future mission concepts to investigate the presence of life on other planets and moons. Finally, we will provide suggestions on methods, techniques, operations and strategies for preparation and realization of future life detection missions. KW - life detection KW - Mars KW - icy moons KW - habitability KW - space missions Y1 - 2018 N1 - 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October 2018. SP - 1 EP - 8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jabbari, Medisa A1 - Bhattarai, Aroj A1 - Anding, Ralf A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Biomechanical simulation of different prosthetic meshes for repairing uterine/vaginal vault prolapse T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 118 EP - 119 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Iomdina, Elena N. A1 - Kiseleva, Anna A. A1 - Kotliar, Konstantin A1 - Luzhnov, Petr V. T1 - Quantification of Choroidal Blood Flow Using the OCT-A System Based on Voxel Scan Processing T2 - 2020 International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications (BIA) Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-7281-7073-2 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244511 SP - 41 EP - 44 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hunker, Jan A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Goßmann, Matthias A1 - Linder, Peter A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Development of a tool to analyze the conduction speed in microelectrode array measurements of cardiac tissue T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen N2 - The discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cells reprogrammed from somatic cells [1] and their ability to differentiate into cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) has provided a robust platform for drug screening [2]. Drug screenings are essential in the development of new components, particularly for evaluating the potential of drugs to induce life-threatening pro-arrhythmias. Between 1988 and 2009, 14 drugs have been removed from the market for this reason [3]. The microelectrode array (MEA) technique is a robust tool for drug screening as it detects the field potentials (FPs) for the entire cell culture. Furthermore, the propagation of the field potential can be examined on an electrode basis. To analyze MEA measurements in detail, we have developed an open-source tool. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 7 EP - 8 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hallmann, Marcus A1 - Heidecker, Ansgar A1 - Schlotterer, Markus A1 - Dachwald, Bernd T1 - GTOC8: results and methods of team 15 DLR T2 - 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Napa, CA N2 - This paper describes the results and methods used during the 8th Global Trajectory Optimization Competition (GTOC) of the DLR team. Trajectory optimization is crucial for most of the space missions and usually can be formulated as a global optimization problem. A lot of research has been done to different type of mission problems. The most demanding ones are low thrust transfers with e.g. gravity assist sequences. In that case the optimal control problem is combined with an integer problem. In most of the GTOCs we apply a filtering of the problem based on domain knowledge. Y1 - 2016 N1 - 26th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, February 14-18, 2016, Napa, California, U.S.A. Napa, CA ER -