...Yijie Jiang; John J. Bradshaw; Roshan Sharma; Rong Z. Gan Hearing loss is highly related to acoustic injuries and mechanical damage of ear tissues. The mechanical responses and failures of ear tissues are difficult to measure experimentally, especially cochlear hair cells within the organ of Corti...

... the ear utilizing a straight, two-chambered cochlea, but the spiral cochlea’s response to blast exposure has yet to be investigated. In this study, we utilized a human ear finite element (FE) model with a spiraled, two-chambered cochlea to simulate the response of the anatomical structural cochlea to BOP...

... strain rates, which are critical input for modeling the mechanical response under blast wave. The property data at high strain rates can also potentially be converted into complex modulus in frequency domain to model acoustic transmission in the human ear. In this study, we developed a new miniature...

... be determined for different locations over the entire TM, and the in-plane properties can be determined for different quadrants of the TM. Gan , R. Z. , Feng , B. , and Sun , Q. , 2004 , “ Three-Dimensional Finite Element Modeling of Human Ear for Sound Transmission ,” Ann. Biomed. Eng...

...Tao Cheng; Rong Z. Gan, Ph.D. Measurement on mechanical properties of the stapedial tendon in human middle ear has not been reported in the literature. In this paper, we used the material testing system to conduct uniaxial tensile, stress relaxation, and failure tests on stapedial tendon specimens...

... is proportional to the difference between zero-strain and zero-resultant capacitance. We analyze the cell and motor’s effectiveness within a broad range of cellular parameters and estimate it to be within a range of 12%–30%. 31 08 2004 05 01 2005 ear hearing cell motility biomembranes...

...; revision received October 10, 2003; Associate Editor: M. Toner. 10 December 2002 10 October 2003 09 03 2004 ear biomechanics bioelectric phenomena mechanoception piezoelectric actuators cell motility Cochlear outer hair cells play a key role in the active...

... of the filaments was also developed 25 26 . Outer hair cells, receptor/effector cells in the cochlea of the mammalian ear, play a critical role in the active amplification, sharp frequency selectivity, and characteristic nonlinearities of the cochlea 1 2 3 . The outer hair...