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Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl

Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
74
Citations
16844
World Ranking
308
National Ranking
18

Overview

Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada. Their research activity spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Pharmacology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, medical imaging and analysis, spinal fractures and fixation techniques, rheology and fluid dynamics studies, and elasticity and material modeling.

Shirazi-Adl has contributed to the following recent papers:

  • Effect of changes in the lumbar posture in lifting on trunk muscle and spinal loads: A combined in vivo, musculoskeletal, and finite element model study (2020, Journal of Biomechanics)
  • Modeling of human intervertebral disc annulus fibrosus with complex multi-fiber networks (2021, Acta Biomaterialia)
  • Biomechanical effects of lumbar fusion surgery on adjacent segments using musculoskeletal models of the intact, degenerated and fused spine (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Blood clot behaves as a poro-visco-elastic material (2022, Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials)
  • Comparison of different lifting analysis tools in estimating lower spinal loads - Evaluation of NIOSH criterion (2020, Journal of Biomechanics)

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Biomaterialia
  • Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials

Among frequent coauthors, Shirazi-Adl collaborates regularly with Farshid Ghezelbash, Amir Hossein Eskandari, Christian Larivière, Navid Arjmand, and Masoud Sharifi.

The accumulation of publications indicates a strong focus on biomechanical modeling and analysis related to the lumbar spine, musculoskeletal load estimation, and intervertebral disc mechanics, integrating methods such as musculoskeletal modeling and finite element analysis.

Best Publications

  • Mechanical Response of a Lumbar Motion Segment in Axial Torque Alone and Combined with Compression

    A Shirazi-Adl;Abdul M. Ahmed;Suresh C. Shrivastava

  • Comparison of eight published static finite element models of the intact lumbar spine: Predictive power of models improves when combined together

    M. Dreischarf;T. Zander;A. Shirazi-Adl;C.M. Puttlitz

  • A finite element study of a lumbar motion segment subjected to pure sagittal plane moments.

    A. Shirazi-Adl;A.M. Ahmed;S.C. Shrivastava

  • Poroelastic creep response analysis of a lumbar motion segment in compression

    M. Argoubi;A. Shirazi-Adl

  • Nonlinear analysis of cartilage in unconfined ramp compression using a fibril reinforced poroelastic model.

    L.P Li;J Soulhat;M.D Buschmann;A Shirazi-Adl

  • Finite element analysis of human knee joint in varus-valgus.

    MZ Bendjaballah;A Shirazi-Adl;DJ Zukor

  • A fibril-network-reinforced biphasic model of cartilage in unconfined compression.

    J. Soulhat;M. D. Buschmann;A. Shirazi-Adl

  • Biomechanics of the knee joint in flexion under various quadriceps forces

    W. Mesfar;A. Shirazi-Adl

  • Experimental determination of friction characteristics at the trabecular bone/porous-coated metal interface in cementless implants.

    A. Shirazi-Adl;M. Dammak;G. Paiement

  • Biomechanics of the human knee joint in compression: reconstruction, mesh generation and finite element analysis

    MZ Bendjaballah;A Shirazi-Adl;DJ Zukor

  • A fibril reinforced nonhomogeneous poroelastic model for articular cartilage: inhomogeneous response in unconfined compression.

    L.P. Li;M.D. Buschmann;A. Shirazi-Adl

  • Estimation of loads on human lumbar spine: A review of in vivo and computational model studies

    Marcel Dreischarf;Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl;Navid Arjmand;Antonius Rohlmann

  • Analysis of squat and stoop dynamic liftings: muscle forces and internal spinal loads

    Babak Bazrgari;Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl;Navid Arjmand

  • Biomechanics of the lumbar spine in sagittal/lateral moments

    A Shirazi-Adl

  • Model and in vivo studies on human trunk load partitioning and stability in isometric forward flexions.

    N. Arjmand;A. Shirazi-Adl

  • Dynamics of human lumbar intervertebral joints. Experimental and finite-element investigations.

    M Kasra;A Shirazi-Adl;G Drouin

  • Role of cartilage collagen fibrils networks in knee joint biomechanics under compression.

    R. Shirazi;A. Shirazi-Adl;M. Hurtig

  • Strain in fibers of a lumbar disc. Analysis of the role of lifting in producing disc prolapse.

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  • Intervertebral disk nutrition: a review of factors influencing concentrations of nutrients and metabolites.

    Thijs Grunhagen;Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl;Jeremy C.T. Fairbank;Jill P.G. Urban

  • Load-bearing role of facets in a lumbar segment under sagittal plane loadings

    A. Shirazi-Adl;G. Drouin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hendrik Schmidt
Hendrik Schmidt Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans-Joachim Wilke
Hans-Joachim Wilke University of Ulm
Antonius Rohlmann
Antonius Rohlmann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Christian M. Puttlitz
Christian M. Puttlitz Colorado State University
Ernst B. Hunziker
Ernst B. Hunziker University of Bern
Antonio Gloria
Antonio Gloria University of Naples Federico II
Idsart Kingma
Idsart Kingma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jukka S. Jurvelin
Jukka S. Jurvelin University of Eastern Finland
Georg N. Duda
Georg N. Duda Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Lutz Claes
Lutz Claes University of Ulm

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