Neil Wright
Neil Wright
Assoc. Professor and Assoc. Chair for the ME Undergrad Prog.
Research Biography
Measuring multi-axial thermophysical properties of elastomers and biological soft tissues that are subjected to finite multi-axial deformation; thermomechanically-induced damage to proteins, cells, and tissues. Biomedical; polymer; nonlinear mechanics.
Research Interests
- biomedical
- polymer
Selected Publications
- Pence, T.J., Monroe, R.J., and N. T. Wright, 2008, "On the computation of stress in affine versus non-affine fibril kinematics within planar collagen network models," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, v. 130, 041009-1
- Munsell, B. A., Beede, D. K., Domecq, J. J., Epperson, W. B., Ragavendran A., Wright, N. T.,Zanella, A. J., "Use of infrared thermography to non-invasively identify lesions in dairy cows," Journal of Animal Science, 84, pp. 143-143, Suppl. 1, 2006.
- Beck, J.V., N. T. Wright, and A. Haji-Sheikh, 2008, "Solutions for Heat Conduction with Time-Varying Boundary Conditions,'' International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v. 51, pp. 2553-2565.
- Aizaz A., Bauer P., Grimm T. L., Wright N. T., Antoine, C. Z., 2007, "Measurements of thermal conductivity and Kapitza conductance of niobium for SRF cavities for various treatments,'' IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 17:2, pp. 1310-1313.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- 1990 - John A. Goff Award, University of Pennsylvania, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics