Education
- Habilitation (Venia Legendi) Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, CA
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Research Focus
- Computational and experimental solid (bio)mechanics
- Finite element methods
- Biomechanics of cartilage and arteries
- Reliability prediction and design tools for MEMS
Awards
- Honorable Mention in the Poster Competition at the Frontiers in Bioengineering Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, September 2014
- United States Patent: US 7,979,237 Fracture Prediction for Crystalline Microstructures, 2011
- United States Patent: US D479,474 S Design for Process Device, 2003
Publications
Zhao, Y., B. Feng, J. Lee, N. Lu, D.M. Pierce, A Multi-layered Computational Model for Wrinkling of Human Skin Predicts Aging Effects, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 103:103552, 2020.
Marshall, L., A. Tarakanova, P. Szarek, D.M. Pierce, Cartilage and Collagen Mechanics Under Large-Strain Shear Within In Vivo and at Supraphysiogical Temperatures, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 103:103595, 2020.
Wang, X., C.P. Neu, D.M. Pierce, Advances Toward Multiscale Computational Models of Cartilage Mechanics and Mechanobiology, Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering, 11:51-57, 2019.
Argote, P.F., J.T. Kaplan, A. Poon, X. Xu, N.C. Emery, D.M. Pierce, C.P. Neu, Chondrocyte Viability is Lost During High-Rate Impact Loading by Transfer of Amplified Strain, But Not Stress, to Pericellular and Cellular Scales, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 27(12):1822-1830, 2019.
Siri, S., F. Maier, S. Santos, D.M. Pierce, B. Feng, The Load-Bearing Function of the Colorectal Submucosa and its Relevance to Visceral Nociception Elicited by Mechanical Stretch, American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 317(3):G349-G358, 2019.
Santos, S., N.C. Emery, C.P. Neu, D.M. Pierce, Propagation of Microcracks in Collagen Networks of Cartilage Under Mechanical Loads, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 27(9):1392-1402, 2019.
Maier, F., C.G. Lewis, D.M. Pierce, Through-Thickness Patterns of Shear Strain Evolve in Early Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 27(9):1382-1391, 2019.
Siri, S., F. Maier, L. Chen, S. Santos, D.M. Pierce, B. Feng, Differential Biomechanical Properties of Mouse Distal Colon and Rectum Innervated by the Splanchnic and Pelvic Afferents, American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 316(4): G473-G481, 2019.
Maier, F., C.G. Lewis, D.M. Pierce, The Evolving Large-Strain Shear Responses of Progressively Osteoarthritic Human Cartilage, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 27(5):810-822, 2019.
Zhao, Y., B. Feng, J. Lee, N. Lu, D.M. Pierce, A Multi-Layered Model of Human Skin Elucidates Mechanisms of Wrinkling in the Forehead, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, (In press).
Luu, B., E.A. Cronauer, V. Gandhi, J. Kaplan, D.M. Pierce, M. Upadhyay, A Finite Element approach for locating the Center of Resistance of Maxillary Teeth, JoVE, (in press).
