Dr. John. C. Criscione
contact at jccriscione@tamu.edu
or at (979) 845-5428

Areas of Interest:
  • Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
  • Cardiac Mechanics
  • Constitutive Modeling
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Cellular Mechanics
  • Applications of Soft Tissue Biomechanics
    in Industry and Medicine

Titles:

  • Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University from
    August 2001.
  • Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins in May 1999.
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering
    from Johns Hopkins in May 1999.

 

Associations:

  • The American Physiological Society, member
  • The Biomedical Engineering Society, member
  • The Society of Engineering Science, member


ARTICLES 



          Criscione, J.C.
, McCulloch, A.D., Hunter, W.C., 2001. Scalar strain attributes with minimal
          covariance in hyperelasticity, for laminar materials with one fiber family. Submitted to JMPS 5/2001.

Criscione, J.C., Hunter, W.C., 2001. Kinematic framework for materials with two separate families of parallel fibers. Submitted to JMPS 5/2001.

Hunter, W.C., Criscione, J.C., 2001. Natural strain constitutive functions determined from finite torsion tests of isotropic, incompressible cylinders. Submitted to Journal of Applied Mechanics 4/2001.

Hunter, W.C., Criscione, J.C., 2001. Natural strain estimated directly from the Cauchy-Green deformation tensor. Submitted to International Journal of Solids and Structures 4/2001.

Criscione, J.C., Douglas, A.S., Hunter, W.C., 2001. Physically based strain variant set for materials exhibiting transversely isotropic behavior. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 49:871-897.

Criscione, J.C., 2000. Direct tensor expression for natural strain and compact look-up table method. Submitted to International Journal of Computers and Structures 9/2000.

Criscione, J.C., Humphrey, J.D., Douglas A.S., Hunter, W.C., 2000. An invariant basis for natural strain which yields orthogonal stress response terms in isotropic hyperelasticity. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 48:2445-2465.

Criscione, J.C., Lorenzen-Schmidt, I., Humphrey, J.D., Hunter, W.C., 1999. Mechanical contribution of endocardium during finite extension and torsion experiments on papillary muscles. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 27(2):123-130.


Presentations & Abstracts


Criscione, J.C. (2001, September) Optimal choice of strain invariants for materials exhibiting transversely isotropic behavior. Accepted for presentation at Life Sciences 2001 sponsored by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Criscione, J.C. (2001, June) Contrary to Mooney's classical result, a Mooney-Rivlin type response is not to be expected for rubber undergoing small strain. Presented at 2001 Mechanics and Materials Conference sponsored by ASME, ASCE, and SES.

Criscione, J.C., Covell, J.W., Omens, J.H., McCulloch, A.D. (2000, April) Anatomically Anchored, Curvilinear Coordinate System for Defining the Macro- and Micro-Structure of the Heart. Presented at the FASEB 2000 meeting.

Criscione, J.C., Hunter, W.C., McCulloch, A.D. (2000, April) Physically Meaningful Constitutive Relation for Myocardium. Presented at FASEB 2000 meeting.

Criscione, J.C., McCulloch, A.D., Omens, J.H., Covell, J.W. (2000, January) Determining the Influence of a Genetic Mutation (MLP Knockout) on the Laminar Structure of the Heart is a Quantitative Challenge in Mechanics. Presented at LJIS2000, Quantitative Challenges in the Post-Genomic Sequence Era.

Criscione, J.C., Humphrey, J.D., Hunter, W.C. (1998, September) Natural strain invariants for isotropic finite hyperelasticity. Paper presented at the Thirty-fifth Annual Technical Meeting , Society of Engineering Science, Pullman, WA.

Criscione, J.C., Lorang, D.M., Hunter, W.C. (1997, November) Could end-systolic torsional elastic energy contribute to early filling? Paper presented at the Seventieth Scientific Session of the American Heart Association, Orlando, FL.

Criscione, J.C., Lorang, D.M., Hunter, W.C. (1997, October) A novel invariant basis for myocardial response allows unification of biaxial and torsional data. Paper presented at the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedial Engineering Society, San Diego, CA.

 

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