To view the provided papers, you need to install AdobeReader, available here.

Conference Papers and Presentations

D. A. Moody, O. M. O'Reilly, and J. C. Lotz, 2011, Design and Development of a Novel Modular Spine Testing Apparatus, ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC2011-53200.

M. Christophy, N. A. Faruk Senan, D. A. Moody, O. M. O'Reilly, D. M. Peters, J. C. Lotz and M. F. Metzger, On the Dynamics of the Human Spine: Towards Mechanical Characterizations of Back Pain and its Treatments, NSF CMMI Grantees Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-7, 2011. Poster and Paper.

M. Metzger, N. A. Faruk Senan, O. O'Reilly, and J. Lotz, Minimizing Errors Associated with Calculating the Helical Axis of Spinal Motion, Poster Presentation No. 1515, Orthopaedic Research Society 56th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6--9, 2010.

N. A. Faruk Senan, David A. Moody, O. M. O'Reilly, D. M. Peters, J. C. Lotz and M. F. Metzger, Towards Mechanical Characterizations of Back Pain and its Therapies, NSF CMMI Grantees Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22-June 25, 2009. Paper Number 0726675.

N. A. Faruk Senan and O. M. O'Reilly, On the use of Quaternions to Measure the Stiffness Matrix of a Vertebral Motion Segment, ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference (SBC2009), Resort at Squaw Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA, June 17-June 21, 2009. Paper Number SBC2009-206663.

M. F. Metzger, N. A. Faruk Senan, J. C. Lotz and O. M. O'Reilly, Revisiting the Stiffness Matrix with an Application to Total Disc Replacement Systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the North American Spine Society, NASS 24th Annual Meeting published in The Spine Journal Vol. 5, No. 1, page 165S (2008).

Journal Papers

O. M. O'Reilly and D. M. Peters, Nonlinear Stability Criteria for Structures Composed of Branched Elastic Rods, Submitted for publication. (2011)

O. M. O'Reilly and D. M. Peters, On Stability Analyses of Three Classical Buckling Problems for the Elastic Strut, Journal of Elasticity (2011)

M. Christophy, N. A. Faruk Senan, J. C. Lotz, and O. M. O'Reilly, A Muscloskeletal Model for the Lumbar Spine, Biomechanics and Modelling in Mechanobiology (2011).

O. M. O'Reilly and T. N. Tresierras, On the Static Equilibria of Branched Elastic Rods, International Journal of Engineering Science (2011).

M. Metzger, N. A. Faruk Senan, O. O'Reilly, and J. Lotz, Minimizing Errors Associated with Calculating the Helical Axis of Spinal Motion, Journal of Biomechanics (2010).

M. F. Metzger, N. A. Faruk Senan, and O. M. O'Reilly, On the Cartesian Stiffness Matrix in Rigid Body Dynamics: An Energetic Perspective, Journal of Multibody System Dynamics (2010).

O. M. O'Reilly, M. F. Metzger, J. M. Buckley, D. A. Moody and J. C. Lotz, On the Stiffness Matrix of the Intervertebral Joint: Application to Total Disc Replacement, ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. Vol. 131, No. 8 (2009).

N. A. Faruk Senan and O. M. O'Reilly, On the Use of Quaternions and Euler Rodrigues Symmetric Parameters with Moments and Moment Potentials, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 595-609 (2009).

Masters Reports and Doctoral Dissertations

Masters Report, Nur Adila Faruk Senan: How Accurately Can the Stiffness Matrix of a Vertebral Unit be Measured?; May 2008.

Masters Report, David A. Moody: Design of a Dynamic Flexion-Extension Spine Testing Device; December 2008.

Masters Report, Daniel M. Peters: The Stabilizing Effect of Muscle Forces on the Spine; December 2008.

Masters Report, Miguel Christophy: A Detailed Open-Source Muskoloskeletal Model of the Human Lumbar Spine; May 2010.