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National Conference on Biomechanics 2006
15-17 December 2006
(A program of Indian Society of Biomechanics)
& Pre-Conference Workshop on Biomechanics on 15th December 2006

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

11.30 – 12.30 hrs: REGISTRATION

12.30 – 13.45 hrs:  INAUGURATION

Welcome Address: Prof. J. K. Chakraborty, Chairman, Organizing Committee

On the Occasion: Dr. Amit Roychowdhury, Organizing Secretary

Presidential Address: Prof. N. R. Banerjea, Vice Chancellor, BESU, Shibpur

Inaugural Address by Chief Guest : Dr. Surya Kanta Mishra, Hon’ble Minister-In-Charge, Department of Health & Family Welfare,  Government of West Bengal

Address:        Dr. Jesse S. Ruan, Guest of Honour, Ford Motor Company, Michigan, USA

Key Note Address: “DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMECHANICS AND ITS RELEVANCE IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD”

Prof. Subrata Pal, Vice President, ISB, School of Bio-Science & Engineering
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Vote of Thanks: Dr. Santanu Majumder,  Joint Secretary, Organizing Committee

Lunch Break (13.35 – 14.30 hrs)

Pre-Conference Workshop on Biomechanics

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006: 14.30 – 15.30 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Keynote Address: “FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF THE HUMAN HEAD AND THE BIOMECHANICAL BASIS OF HEAD INJURY CRITERION (HIC)” by Dr. Jesse S. Ruan (Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA)
 
Keynote Address: “BIOMECHANICAL TESTING OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS” Prof. Subrata Saha (SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006: 15.30 – 16.30 hrs
TECHNO-INDUSTRIAL TALK

MIMICS Software by Mr. Thomas Yong, Malaysia, Materialise-MTAB

Tea Break (16.00 – 16.15 hrs)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006: 16.15 – 15.45 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Keynote Address: “A PERSPECTIVE ON TRAFFIC-RELATED FATALITIES IN INDIA AND SCOPE FOR IMPLEMENTING NEW VEHICLE SAFETY TESTS” by Prof. Anindya Deb (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Keynote Address: “EVOLUTION OF PLATE FIXATION DEVICES IN LONG BONE FRACTURE” by Dr. Goutam Saha (Woodlands Medical Center, Kolkata)

Keynote Address: “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNIOLOGY” by Mr. N. R. Seth and Dr. Dhananjoy Saha (The Patent Office, Kolkata)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006

09.00 – 11.30 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 1: ORTHOPAEDIC AND IMPLANT MECHANICS

Chairpersons: Prof. Subrata Pal (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
  Dr. Ratnesh Kumar (NIOH, Kolkata)

Keynote Address: “STUDIES ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF AN ELBOW PROSTHESIS WITH THE HELP OF A NEWLY DESIGNED ELBOW JOINT SIMULATOR AND IT’S CLINICAL APPLICATION’ by Dr. D. P. Baksi (Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata)

“EVOLUTION OF A SLOPPY HINGE ELBOW TO PREVENT HUMERAL STEM LOOSENING” by Dr. D. D. Baksi (SSKM Hospital & IPGMER, Kolkata)

“THE BIO MECHANICAL STUDY OF THE NEWLY DESIGNED SHOULDER HEMIPROSTHESIS FOR SATIESFACTORY FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME SUITABLE FOR INDIAN SENARIO” by Dr. A. N. Mukherjee, A. K. Paul, S. Nandy, D. D. Baksi, D. Banerjee (J. N. Roy Hospital, Kolkata)

“BIOMECHNICS OF THE SPINE – AN OVERVIEW” by Dr. Saumyajit Basu (Kothari Medical Center, Kolkata)

“BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT METHOD OF FRACTURE BOTH BONE LEG” by Sambit Panda (MKCG Medical College Hospital, Berhampur, Orissa)

“A BIOMECHANICAL SOLUTION TO PLANTAR FASCITIS” by B. K. Sadangi, J. Sahoo, S. K. Panda, S. K. Behera (MKCG Medical College Hospital, Berhampur, Orissa)

“BIO MECHANICAL APPROACH TO MANAGEMENT OF INTER- CONDYLAR FRACTURE OF HUMERUS” by S. K. Behera (MKCG Medical College Hospital, Berhampur, Orissa)

“QUADRICEPS SEMG CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITS DURING KNEE SWING” by Suhas S. Gajre, U. Singh, Rajendra K. Saxena, S. Anand

 “A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE OSTEOLOGICAL VARIATION OF THE PROXIMAL FEMURS OF ELDERLY INDIANS” by Sreerup Banerjee, Partha Sarathi Banerjee, Subrata Pal (Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur)

“STRESS ANALYSIS OF Ti SCREW ROOT DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM USING CT SCAN DATA OF MANDIBLE” by Bidyut Pal, Subrata Pal (IIT Kharagpur)

“DYNAMIC STRESS AND FATIGUE ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL HIP PROSTHESIS” by M. Sivasankar, T. Benarjee, N. Ravikiran, D. Chakraborty, S. K. Dwivedy (IIT Guwahati)

“PARAMETERIZATION OF HUMAN FEMUR BONE USING CT SCAN IMAGES” by Subrata Pal, Ujjal Bhanu Ghosh (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

“STRESSES ON FRACTURED NECK OF FEMORAL HEAD AND ITS EFFECT ON HEALING MECHANISM” by Sanjoy Kumar Dutta, Ratnesh Kumar (National Institute of Orthopaedically Handicapped, Kolkata)

“MANAGEMENT OF LONG SEGMENT BONE DEFECT - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE” by N. K. Das (The Institute of Child Health, Kolkata)

Tea Break (11.30 – 11.45 hrs)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006

11.45 – 13.15 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 2: HARD TISSUE AND SOFT TISSUE BIOMECHANICS

Chairpersons: Prof. R. K. Saxena (IIT Delhi)
  Dr. D. P. Baksi (Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata)

Keynote Address: “BONE MECHANICS AND IT’S RELATIONSHIP TO OSTEOPOROSIS: SELECTED EXAMPLES” by Prof. Subrata Saha (SUNNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, USA)

“BONE-ULTRASONIC WAVE INTERACTION: A THEORETICAL STUDY by Abir Chakraborty (General Motors R&D, Bangalore)

“AGE RELATED CHANGES IN MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LONG BONES” by D.V. Rai, M. Dhiman, P. Tewari, D. K. Saxena (Panjab University, Chandigarh)

“ROLE OF BIOMECHANICAL FACTORS IN ISOLATED ARTICULAR CARTILAGE CHONDROCYTES OF WEIGHT BEARING KNEE JOINTS” by Garima Sharma, R. K. Saxena, Prashant Mishra (IIT Delhi)

“DEVELOPMENT OF A LOAD SHARING MECHANISM FOR THE EARLY STAGE OF OSTEOARTHRITIS IN HUMAN KNEE JOINT” by Atanu Basak, Anirban Mandal, H.P.Giri, S.K.Roy Chowdhury (IIT Kharagpur)

“ARTERIAL WALL MECHANICS – A REVIEW” by Somnath Sarangi, Somnath DasBakshi, Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Akhandal Mohanty (IIT Kharagpur)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006
13.15 – 13.45 hrs
TECHNO-INDUSTRIAL TALK

Ansys Software Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Lunch Break (13.45 – 14.30 hrs)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006
14.30 – 16.30 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 3: REHABILITATION ENGG. & BIOINSTRUMENTATION

Chairpersons: Prof. D. N. Tiberawala (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
  Prof. J. K. Chakraborty (BESUS, Howrah)
 
Keynote Address 1: “BIOMECHANICS IN LOCOMOTOR DISABILITY REHABILITATION” by Dr. Ratnesh Kumar (National Institute of Orthopaedically Handicapped, Kolkata)

Keynote Address 2: “RESEARCH TRENDS AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL IN SPORTS AND REHABILITATION” by Dr. Dhanajay Shaw (Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education, Sports & Science, New Delhi)
 “BIO-MCHANICAL ANALOG OF SPINE FOR ORTHOTIC MANAGEMENT OF IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS” by Ranjan Das, M. D. Burman (Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack)

“BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS FOR DESIGN OF SYME’S PROSTHESIS” by M. D. Burman, Ranjan Das, B. Karmakar (Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack)

“A NOVEL APPROACH TO CMRR IMPROVEMENT IN BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIER” by Paramita Banerjee, D. N. Tiberawala (Gurunanak Institute of Technology, West Bengal)

“STUDY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THRESHOLD BASED EMG PROSTHETIC HAND” by A. S. Arora, Deepak Joshi, Navleen Singh Rekhi (Sent Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Longowal, Punjab)

“DEVELOPMENT OF CONTROL STRATEGY FOR EMG BASED PROSTHETIC HAND” by A. S. Arora, Ajay Kumar (Sent Longowal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Longowal, Punjab)

“ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF STABILOGRAMS USING STATIC POSTUROGRAPHY” by Srijeeta Bagchi, Amartya Ghosh, P. Lenka, D. N. Tibarewala (IISc Bangalore)

“DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW COST FORCE PLATE FOR ANALYZING STABILITY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY” by P. Lenka, A. Ghosh, R. Kumar, D. N. Tiberwala (National Institute of Orthopaedically Handicapped, Kolkata)

“STRESS ANALYSIS OF BK PROSTHESIS WITH FINITE ELEMENT METHOD” by P. Lenka, R. Daripa, R. Kumar, A. Roychoudhury, D. N. Tiberwala (National Institute of Orthopaedically Handicapped, Kolkata)

Tea Break (16.30 – 16.45 hrs)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006
16.45 – 18.15 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 4: BIOMATERIALS

Chairpersons: Prof. V. K. Katiyar (IIT Roorkee)
             Prof. N. K. Das (The Institute of Child Health, Kolkata)
  
Keynote Address: “BIO-MECHANICAL AND BIO-METALLURGICAL STUDIES OF ORTHOPEDIC IMPLANTS” by Prof. R. K. Saxena (IIT Delhi)

“MINERAL PROXIMITY INFLUENCES THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF ORGANICS IN NATURAL BIOCOMPOSITES” by Pijush Ghosh, Dinesh Katti, Kalpana Katti (North Dakota State University, USA)

“DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIALS FOR MEDICAL DEVICES” by Alok R. Ray (IIT Delhi)

“ANALYSIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALUMINA PARTICLES REINFORCED ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITE FOR ACETABULAR CUP” by D. Saha, A. K. Banthia, S. Dhabal (The Patent office, Kolkata)

“FATIGUE AND STRESS-RELAXATION OF ALUMINA REINFORCED ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES AS BIOMATERIAL” by S. Roy, S. Pal (Netaji Subhah Engineering College, Kolkata)

“THE POSSIBILITIES OF CERAMIC RESURFACED FEMORAL HEAD – A FINITE ELEMENT STUDY” by Sanjay Gupta, Bidyut Pal (IIT Kharagpur)

“BIOMECHANICS OF ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE USED IN MEDICINE” by S. Pal, Sheba Rani N. D. (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

CONFERENCE DINNER (19.30 HRS ONWARDS)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
09.30 – 11.00 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 5: MODELING & SIMULATION IN BIOMECHANICS - I

Chairpersons: Prof. S. Saha (SUNNY Downstate Medical Center, USA)
  Prof. Anindya Deb (IISc, Bangalore) 
  
Keynote Address: “FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF THE WHOLE HUMAN BODY AND ITS BIOMECHANICS” by Dr. Jesse S. Ruan (Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA)

“EFFECTS OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN IMPACT TESTS FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY – A FE SIMULATION STUDY” by A.Soni, S. Mukherjee, A. Chawla (IIT Delhi)

“A MODIFIED RIGID BARRIER FOR IMPROVED ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPANT INJURY IN INCOMPATIBLE FRONTAL COLLISIONS” by Anindya Deb, Kalyan S. Cheruvu, Jesse S. Ruan (IISc Bangalore)

“CAE-DRIVEN DESIGN OF A CUSTOMIZED PROSTHESIS FOR HEMI-PELVIS REPLACEMENT” by S. R. Shankapal, D. C. Sundaresh, Ratheesh R. Nath, Anindya Deb

“EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF 3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF PELVIS-FEMUR-SOFT TISSUE COMPLEX UNDER SIDE IMPACT LOADING” by Santanu Majumder, Amit Roychowdhury, Subrata Pal

“FINITE ELEMENT STUDY OF SIDE IMPACT ON PELVIS WITH CAR DOOR PADDING” by Santanu Majumder, Amit Roychowdhury, Subrata Pal

“PREDICTION OF SUBDURAL HEMATOMA BASED ON A 3D FE HUMAN HEAD MODEL” by Shamik Sarkar, Ujjal Bhanu Ghosh, Amit Roychowdhury

Tea Break (11.00 – 11.15 hrs)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
11.15 – 13.00 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 6: MODELING & SIMULATION IN BIOMECHANICS - II

Chairpersons: Dr. Jesse S. Ruan (Ford Motor Company, USA)
  Dr. J. Sahoo (MKCG Medical College, Berhampur)
  
Keynote Address: “DIGITAL HUMAN MODELS AND BIOMECHANICS FOR PRODUCT AND WORKSTATION DESIGN” by Dr. D. Majumdar, Deepti Majumdar, M.S. Pal and P.K. Banerjee (Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Delhi)

“MODELING OF HUMAN ARM BONES USING CLASSICAL AND TIMOSHENKO BEAM THEORY” by Payal Desai and Hemant Patil (IIT Bombay)

“DESIGN AND ANALYSES OF CARDIOVASCULAR STENT USING FEM” by Ujjal Bhanu Ghosh, Amit Roychowdhury, Subrata Pal

“A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT STRESS ANALYSIS OF L4-L5 VERTEBRA IN A BENDING POSTURE” by Titov Banerjee, Santanu Majumder, Jayanta Kumar Chakraborty (Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology, West Bengal)

“STRESS PATTERN AND DISPLACEMENT OF VARIOUS CRANIO-DENTO-FACIAL STRUCTURES FOLLOWING RAPID AND SLOW MAXILLARY EXPANSION – A THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT STUDY” by M. S. Rani (V. S. Dental College & Hospital, Bangalore)

“DESIGN OF DENTAL IMPLANT USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD” by Tarapada Roy, Amit Roychowdhury

“OPTIMUM ANGLE OF FIXING SCREWS WITH FEMORAL FRACTURE LINE- A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS” by Amalendu Sahoo, A. Ghosh, A. Roychowdhury

“ESTIMATION OF COMPRESSIVE AND SHEAR FORCES ON LOWER BACK IN WEIGHT LIFTING” by Ajay Bangar (M.I.T.S, Gwalior)

“ESTIMATION OF MOMENTS, WORK AND VALIDATION OF STRESSES THROUGH CAD MODELING DURING MANUAL LOAD LIFTING IN SAGGITAL PLANE” by M. Pan, S. Hazra, B. Bepari & B.N. Lahiri (Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal)

Lunch Break (13.00 – 13.45 hrs)

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2006
13.45 – 16.15 hrs
Venue: Seminar Hall, M. N. Dastur School of Material Science

Session 7: TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS IN BIOMECHANICS
(Bio-fluid Mechanics, Biomedical Image Processing, Cardiovascular Mechanics, Physio-therapeutic Biomechanics, Sports Biomechanics, Forensic Biomechanics etc.)

Chairpersons: Dr. T. K. Pal (Gurunanak Institute of Dental Science &   Research, Kolkata)
  Dr. G. Saha (Woodlands Medical Center, Kolkata)

Keynote Address 1: “ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY AND BIOMECHANICS” by Dr. Jagannath Sahoo (MKCG Medical College & Hospital, Berhampur) 

Keynote Address 2: "PRANAYAMA AND ITS SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION" by Prof. Vinod Kumar Katiyar (IIT Roorkee)

“FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF BALLOON DURING ANGIOPLASTY” by C.S.Ramesh, P.K.Marikatti (SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, Karnataka)

“NEURODYNAMICS OF MEDIAN NERVE, A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROME AND NORMAL” by Debapriya Mukherjee, Monalisa Pattnaik, P. P. Mohanty (Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack)

“RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ABDOMINAL MUSCLE STRENGTH, SITTING BALANCE & GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY” by Suderson Suriya Mouli, Monalisa Patnaik, P. P. Mohanty (Swami Vivekananda National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack)

“BIT PLANE TEXTURE FEATURES OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGES” by V.R. Ratnaparkhe, R.R.Manthalkar, Y.V.Joshi (Government Polytechnic, Aurangabad)

“FORENSIC BIOMECHANICS AND ITS PURVIEW” by M. Bhattacharyya, B. Bhattacharyya (Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah)

“EFFECT OF SERIES OF NON-SYMMETRICAL PLAQUES ON ATHEROSCLEROTIC BLOOD FLOW AND ARTERIAL WALL RESPONSES” by Sreepada Srinivas, R. Krishan Kumar (Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore)

“RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GASTRIC MOTILITY, MIXING AND DRUG RELEASE, ANALYZED USING COMPUTER SIMULATION” by Anupam Pal, James G. Brasseur, Bertil Abrahamsson (IIT Kanpur)

“SPRINT MECHANICS: A REVIEW” by Kalyan Kumar Maji (Sports Authority of India, Kolkata)

“FRICTIONAL MECHANICS OF AN AQUEOUS GEL - SOLID INTERFACE” by Arun K. Singh, Vinay A. Juvekar, Vijay G. Ukadgaonker, Jayesh R. Bellare (IIT Bombay)

“DYNAMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE NATURE AND INFLUENCE OF SWING MOVEMENTS” by S. Bhowmick (Kalyani University, West Bengal)

Tea Break (16.15 – 16.30 hrs)

Session 8: VALEDICTORY SESSION (16.30 – 17.30 hrs)

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