Tod A Laursen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Associate Dean for Education of Pratt School of Engineering

Please note: Tod has left the "Pratt School of Engineering" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	144 Hudson Hall
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.pratt.duke.edu/~laursen

Education:

PhD	Stanford University	1992
MS	Stanford University	1989
BS	Oregon State University	1986

Specialties:

Structural Engineering
Computational Mechanics
Education, Engineering

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Upton, Maureen L. and Guilak, Farshid and Laursen, Tod A. and Setton, Lori A., Finite element modeling predictions of region-specific cell-matrix mechanics in the meniscus, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, vol. 5 no. 2-3 (2006), pp. 140 - 149 [s10237-006-0031-4]  [abs]
2. Trickey, Wendy R. and Baaijens, Frank P.T. and Laursen, Tod A. and Alexopoulos, Leonidas G. and Guilak, Farshid, Determination of the Poisson's ratio of the cell: Recovery properties of chondrocytes after release from complete micropipette aspiration, Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 39 no. 1 (2006), pp. 78 - 87 [006]  [abs]
3. Stanciulescu, Ilinca and Laursen, Tod A., On the interaction of frictional formulations with bifurcation phenomena in hyperelastic steady state rolling calculations, International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 43 no. 10 (2006), pp. 2959 - 2988 [039]  [abs]
4. Laursen, Tod A. and Stanciulescu, Ilinca, An algorithm for incorporation of frictional sliding conditions within a steady state rolling framework, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 22 no. 4 (2006), pp. 301 - 318 [815]  [abs]
5. Baaijens, Frank P.T. and Trickey, Wendy R. and Laursen, Tod A. and Guilak, Farshid, Large deformation finite element analysis of micropipette aspiration to determine the mechanical properties of the chondrocyte, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 33 no. 4 (2005), pp. 494 - 501 [s10439-005-2506-3]  [abs]
6. Yang, Bin and Laursen, Tod A. and Meng, Xiaonong, Two dimensional mortar contact methods for large deformation frictional sliding, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 62 no. 9 (2005), pp. 1183 - 1225 [1222]  [abs]
7. Puso, Michael A. and Laursen, Tod A., A mortar segment-to-segment contact method for large deformation solid mechanics, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 193 no. 6-8 (2004), pp. 601 - 629 [010]  [abs]
8. Puso, Michael A. and Laursen, Tod A., A mortar segment-to-segment frictional contact method for large deformations, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 193 no. 45-47 (2004), pp. 4891 - 4913 [001]  [abs]