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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
80
Citations
31068
World Ranking
207
National Ranking
102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Stephen C. Cowin was affiliated with the City College of New York in the United States. Their research contributions spanned several fields of study, predominantly in engineering and medicine, with specific focus areas including ocean engineering, oral surgery, mechanical engineering, orthopedics and sports medicine, and epidemiology.

Their body of work covered a range of interdisciplinary topics. Among the main topics addressed in their research were drilling and well engineering, endodontics and root canal treatments, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, bone health and osteoporosis research, bone fractures and treatments, and elasticity and material modeling.

Stephen C. Cowin authored the following recent papers:

  • Adaptive Elasticity: A Review and Critique of a Bone Tissue Adaptation Model, 2020, DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEAKAGE THROUGH THE CEMENT LINE OF A SINGLE OSTEON, 2020, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

Their research appeared in notable publication venues such as:

  • Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Stephen C. Cowin frequently collaborated with co-authors including Gaffar Gailani.

Throughout their career, the scientist was recognized by professional societies, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982 and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Bone mechanics handbook

    Stephen C. Cowin

  • A model for the excitation of osteocytes by mechanical loading-induced bone fluid shear stresses

    S. Weinbaum;S. Weinbaum;S.C. Cowin;S.C. Cowin;Yu Zeng;Yu Zeng

  • Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress, and Growth

    Y. C. Fung;S. C. Cowin

  • LINEAR ELASTIC MATERIALS WITH VOIDS

    Stephen C. Cowin;Jace W. Nunziato

  • Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues, 2nd ed.

    Y. C. Fung;S. C. Cowin

  • Bone remodeling I: theory of adaptive elasticity

    S. C. Cowin;D. H. Hegedus

  • A nonlinear theory of elastic materials with voids

    Jace W. Nunziato;Jace W. Nunziato;Stephen C. Cowin;Stephen C. Cowin

  • A continuous wave technique for the measurement of the elastic properties of cortical bone

    R.B. Ashman;S.C. Cowin;W.C. Van Buskirk;J.C. Rice

  • A continuum theory for granular materials

    M. A. Goodman;S. C. Cowin

  • On the dependence of the elasticity and strength of cancellous bone on apparent density.

    J.C. Rice;S.C. Cowin;J.A. Bowman

  • The relationship between the elasticity tensor and the fabric tensor

    Stephen C. Cowin

  • Mechanotransduction and flow across the endothelial glycocalyx

    Sheldon Weinbaum;Xiaobing Zhang;Yuefeng Han;Hans Vink

  • Candidates for the mechanosensory system in bone.

    S. C. Cowin;L. Moss-Salentijn;M. L. Moss

  • Wolff's law of trabecular architecture at remodeling equilibrium.

    S. C. Cowin

  • Mechanotransduction and strain amplification in osteocyte cell processes

    Yuefeng Han;Stephen C. Cowin;Mitchell B. Schaffler;Sheldon Weinbaum

  • A model for strain amplification in the actin cytoskeleton of osteocytes due to fluid drag on pericellular matrix.

    Lidan You;Stephen C. Cowin;Mitchell B. Schaffler;Sheldon Weinbaum

  • Perspectives on biological growth and remodeling

    D. Ambrosi;G.A. Ateshian;E.M. Arruda;S.C. Cowin

  • The fabric dependence of the orthotropic elastic constants of cancellous bone

    Charles H. Turner;Stephen C. Cowin;Jae Young Rho;Richard B. Ashman

  • EIGENTENSORS OF LINEAR ANISOTROPIC ELASTIC MATERIALS

    Morteza M. Mehrabadi;Stephen C. Cowin

  • A case for bone canaliculi as the anatomical site of strain generated potentials

    S.C. Cowin;S.C. Cowin;S. Weinbaum;S. Weinbaum;Yu Zeng;Yu Zeng

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuan-Cheng Fung
Yuan-Cheng Fung University of California, San Diego
Jenneke Klein-Nulend
Jenneke Klein-Nulend Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam
Takashi Kojima
Takashi Kojima Sapporo Medical University
Rik Huiskes
Rik Huiskes Eindhoven University of Technology
Mehrdad Massoudi
Mehrdad Massoudi United States Department of Energy
Jay D. Humphrey
Jay D. Humphrey Yale University
O.C. Zienkiewicz
O.C. Zienkiewicz Swansea University
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions Collège de France
Cornelius O. Horgan
Cornelius O. Horgan University of Virginia

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