Michigan Tech Home Page ME-EM Home Page ME-EM Search ME-EM Contact Information Email the Webmaster

Gopal Jayaraman
Personal Web Page
E-mail: gjayar@mtu.edu

Office: 805 MEEM
Phone: 487-2519


Professor; PhD, University of Iowa

Biomechanics, Orthopaedic Mechanics, Sports Safety

Research Interests

The on-going research projects are in the area of biomechanics and solid mechanics. In the area of biomechanics they focus on injury mechanisms in human joints and organs due to impact and fatigue and prevention of injuries by prophylactic gears and braces. In the area of solid mechanics they focus on structural failure and material failure due to buckling, impact and fatigue.


Selected Publications

  • Gopal Jayaraman, Allan Struthers: Divergence and Flutter Instability of Elastic Specially Orthotropic Plates Subject to Follower Forces. J. Sound and Vibration, 281, 2005, pp.357-373.
  • Meyer E. G., Sinnott M. T., Haut R. C., Smith E.E. The Effect of Axial Load in the Tibia on the Response of the 90° Flexed Knee to Blunt Impacts with a Deformable Interface. Stapp Car Crash Journal. Vol. 48, 2004, pp. 1-20.
  • Schuster P.J., Chore C.C., Prasad P., Jayaraman G. Development and Validation of the Finite element Model for the Human lower Limb of Pedestrians. Stapp Car Crash Journal 44, 2000, pp.315-334.
  • K. W. Bowers, J.L. Edmunds, D. A. Girod, G. Jayaraman, C. P. Chua, E. B. Toby: Osteocutaneous Radial Forearm Free Flaps. J. Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol. 82-A, No.5, pp. 694-704, 2000.
  • E. Bruce Toby, James Rotramel, Gopal Jayaraman, Allen Struthers: Changes in the Stress Relaxation Properties of Peripheral Nerves AfterTransection. The Journal of Hand Surgery, Vol. 24A, No. 4, pp


Home | Faculty | Staff | Undergraduates | Graduate
Research & Labs | Safety | WECN

MEEM Rooms Schedule | Directory
ME-EM Search