Dr Simon Harrison

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Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

biographic details

Simon's undergraduate study resulted in a combined B.Sc. (Chemistry) and B.E. (Mech, Hons) degree at the University of Western Australia. Following this, he completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia, working on a soft tissue stiffness measurement device, suited to use during surgical procedures. During this period he also worked in industry using FEA (and other stress calculation methods), and experimental stress techniques to design and assess pressurised and structural equipment, primarily for the mining sector.

Simon is a currently Research Fellow in the Biomechanics Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

research interests

Biomechanics of equine locomotion:
 - Muscle and ligament forces in the forelimb during normal locomotion
 - Determination of the contact stresses in the fetlock joint by FEA
 - Correlation of commonly observed failure locations with contact stress results
 - Strain energy storage in elastic structures and muscle metabolic energy usage

General biomechanics
 - Large strain behaviour of biological materials
 - Finite Element modelling of biological systems

Current projects

curriculum vitae

here (pdf format)


selected publications

  1. S.M. Harrison, M.B. Bush, and P.E. Petros, A pinch elastometer for soft tissue.
    Medical Engineering & Physics, 2007. 29(3): p. 307-315.
  2. S.M.Harrison, M.B. Bush, P.E. Petros, Towards a novel tensile elastometer for soft tissue
    (2008) International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 50 (4), pp. 626-640.
  3. S.M. Harrison, M.B. Bush, and P.E. Petros, A novel elastometer for the in-vivo
    measurement of the mechanical response of soft tissue, Biomed 2004:
    Proceedings of the International Federation of Medical and Biological
    Engineering conference, Kuala Lumpur, Sept 2004, pp 255-258, University of
    Malaya.

  4. S.M. Harrison, M.B. Bush, and P.E. Petros, A novel elastometer for soft tissue
    (Invited Paper), Computation Methods and Experiments in Material
    Characterisation II, WITPress, November 2005, pp 111-119.