Joseph Mansour

Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Office: 616A Glennan Phone Number: (216) 368-4190 Fax Number: (216) 368-3007 Email: mansour@case.edu

Education

Ph.D., Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1975
M.S., Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971
B.S., Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, 1969

Research Interests

behavior of soft biological tissues

Teaching Interests

Solid mechanics, mechanics of materials

Publications

Mansour, J. M., Lee, Z. M., & Welter, J. M. (2016). Nondestructive Techniques to Evaluate the Characteristics and Development of Engineered Cartilage.. Annals of biomedical engineering.
Zhou, H., Gawlik, A., Hernandez, C., Goss, M., Mansour, J. M., & Exner, A. M. (2016). Nondestructive Characterization of Biodegradable Polymer Erosion in Vivo Using Ultrasound Elastography Imaging. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering [23739878], 2 (6), 1005-1012.
Kumar, D., Moore, R., Mercer, B., Mansour, J. M., Redline, R. M., & Moore, J. M. (2016). The physiology of fetal membrane weakening and rupture: Insights gained from the determination of physical properties revisited. Placenta [01434004], 42 , 59-73.
Chung, C., Heebner, J., Baskaran, H., Welter, J., & Mansour, J. M. (2015). Ultrasound Elastography for Estimation of Regional Strain of Multilayered Hydrogels and Tissue-Engineered Cartilage.. Annals of biomedical engineering, 43 (12), 2991-3003.
Zhou, Z., Goss, M., Hernandez, C., Mansour, J. M., & Exner, A. M. (2015). Validation of Ultrasound Elastography Imaging for Nondestructive Characterization of Stiffer Biomaterials.. Annals of biomedical engineering.
Motavalli, M., Akkus, O., & Mansour, J. M. (2014). Depth-dependent shear behavior of bovine articular cartilage: relationship to structure.. Journal of anatomy, 225 (5), 519-26.
Kumar, D., Moore, R., Nash, A., Springel, E., Mercer, B., Phillipson, E., Mansour, J. M., & Moore, J. M. (2014). Decidual GM-CSF is a critical common intermediate necessary for thrombin and TNF induced in-vitro fetal membrane weakening.. .
Chen-Yuan, C., S-Y, C., & Mansour, J. M. (2014). Determination of poroelastic properties of cartilage using constrained optimization coupled with finite element analysis. .
Mansour, J. M., Gu, D. M., Chung, C. M., Heebner , J. M., Althans, J. M., Abdalian, S. M., Schluchter, M. M., Liu, Y. M., & Welter, J. M. (2014). Towards the feasibility of using ultrasound to determine mechanical properties of tissues in a sealed bioreactor. Ann Biomed Engr.
Motavalli, M., Akkus, O., & Mansour, J. M. (2014). Depth dependent shear behavior of articular cartilage: Relationship to structure. .
Motavalli, M., Whitney, G., Dennis, J., & Mansour, J. M. (2013). Investigating a continuous shear strain function for depth-dependent properties of native and tissue engineering cartilage using pixel-size data.. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 28 , 62-70.
Chung, C., & Mansour, J. M. (2013). Using regression models to determine the poroelastic properties of cartilage.. Journal of biomechanics, 46 (11), 1921-7.
Mansour, J. M., & Welter, J. M. (2013). Multimodal evaluation of tissue-engineered cartilage.. Journal of medical and biological engineering, 33 (1), 1-16.
Whitney, G., Mera, H., Weidenbecher, M., Awadallah, A., Mansour, J. M., & Dennis, J. M. (2012). Methods for producing scaffold-free engineered cartilage sheets from auricular and articular chondrocyte cell sources and attachment to porous tantalum.. BioResearch open access, 1 (4), 157-65.
Chung, C., & Mansour, J. M. (2012). Application of ANSYS to the Stress Relaxation of Articular Cartilage in Unconfined Compression. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, Accepted for publication
Walker, J., Myers, D., Schluchter, M., Goldberg, V., Caplan, A., Berilla, J., Mansour, J. M., & Welter, J. M. (2011). Nondestructive evaluation of hydrogel mechanical properties using ultrasound.. Annals of biomedical engineering, 39 (10), 2521-30.
Whitney, G., Mansour, J. M., & Dennis, J. M. (2011). Cellularity of scaffold-free engineered cartilage is depth dependent. Case Orthopaedic Journal, 8(1), 29-31
Moore, K., Schatz, F., Ravikumar, M., Mercer, B., Abdelrahim, A., Rangaswamy, N., Bartel, C., Mansour, J. M., Lockwood, C. M., & Moore, J. M. (2010). Alpha-lipoic acid inhibits thrombin-induced fetal membrane weakening in vitro.. Placenta, 31 (10), 886-92.
Mercer, B., Abdelrahim, A., Moore, K., Novak, J., Ravikumar, M., Mansour, J. M., Perez-Fournier, M. M., Milluzzi, C. M., & Moore, J. M. (2010). The impact of vitamin C supplementation in pregnancy and in vitro upon fetal membrane strength and remodeling.. Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), 17 (7), 685-95.
Caparso, A., Durand, D. M., & Mansour, J. M. (2009). A nerve cuff electrode for controlled reshaping of nerve geometry.. Journal of biomaterials applications, 24 (3), 247-73.
Jeon, O., Bouhadir, K., Mansour, J. M., & Alsberg, E. M. (2009). Photocrosslinked alginate hydrogels with tunable biodegradation rates and mechanical properties.. Biomaterials, 30 (14), 2724-34.
Moore, K., Novak, J., Ravikumar, M., Mansour, J. M., Mercer, B. M., & Moore, J. M. (2009). Alpha-lipoic acid inhibits tumor necrosis factor-induced remodeling and weakening of human fetal membranes.. Biology of reproduction, 80 (4), 781-7.
Jeon, O., Bouhadir, K., Mansour, J. M., & Alsberg, E. M. (2009). Photocrosslinked alginate hydrogels with tunable biodegradation rates and mechanical properties. BIOMATERIALS, 30 (14), 2724-2734.
Wilson, D. L., Zhu, Q. L., Duerk, J. L., Mansour, J. M., Kilgore, K. M., & Crago, P. E. (1999). Estimation of tendon moment arms from three-dimensional magnetic resonance images.. Annals of biomedical engineering, 27 (2), 247-56.
Wilson, D. L., Zhu, Q. L., Duerk, J. L., Mansour, J. M., Kilgore, K. M., & Crago, P. E. (1999). Estimation of tendon moment arms from three-dimensional magnetic resonance images.. Annals of biomedical engineering, 27 (2), 247-56.
Zhu, Q., Duerk, J., Mansour, J. M., Crago, P. E., & Wilson, D. L. (1997). Tendon moment arm measurement using 3D MRI images. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the Ieee Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vol 19, Pts 1-6, 19 , 480-482.