Purim at the lab – 2015 – Left to Right: Ilan, Yossi, Ofri, Hagen, Kuti, Gal, Snir, ZY

CM&EBL, June 2020. Left to Right: Gal, Shani, Kuti, Maxime, ZY, Shirly, Vered, Leetal (photo by J. Birenboim)

June 2020 - Shani, Gal, Vered, Kuti and Shirly in the lab (photo by J. Birenboim)

Nov 2022 - Retirement party for Ilan Gilad

Present PhD Students

Mrs. Shani Martinez Weissberg: (Oct 19- )

Failure of bones with metastatic tumors.

Mr. Maxime Levy (Jan 21 - )

Failure criteria for human long bones

Present MSc Students

Ms. Arielle Feder (Oct 22 - Present)

Biomechanics of the Spine

Ms. Alla Dar Diab (Oct 23 - Present)

Active response of arteries

PhD. Alumni

Dr. Netta Omer : (PhD conferred Dec 07) - Senior lecturer @ Afeka College of Engineering.
Edge Singularities in Elasiticy in 3-D Domains.
Dr. Nir Trabelsi: (PhD conferred March 12) – Senior lecturer and Head of ME Dept @ Sami Shamoon College of Eng & PerSimiO.
The Mechanical Response of Proximal Femurs: Finite Element Analyses Validated by Experimental Observations.
Dr. Elad Priel: (PhD conferred April 12) - At Rotem Industries and senior lecturer @Sami Shamoon College of Engineering.
Investigating Passive and Active Responses of Artery Walls by p-Finite Element Methods.
Dr. Brigit Mittelman (Ben-Ami) (PhD entitled Oct 15) – At Kamag.
On 3-D Singularities and Their Connection to Failure Initiation.
Dr. Samuel Shanon (PhD entitled Jan 16) – at Agada Medical.
Singular Solutions of Elliptic Boundary Value Problems Along Curved Edges in 3-D Domains.
Dr. Yaron Schapira : (PhD entitled June 20) - Post Doc, TUHH&TUM Germany - now at Sorek Research Center.
Elastic solutions in the vicinity of 3-D singular edges. Recipient of the Humboldt award for PD 2020.
Dr. Yekutiel Katz : (PhD entitled June 21) - At a drone start-up. The mechanical response of a femur with an implant.
Dr. Gal Dahan : (PhD entitled June 21) - The mechanical response of human proximal humeri.

At the graduation ceremony with Elad and Nir – June 13, 2012

Gal and Kuti's graduation – July 2021

With Gal and Kuti at the Graduation ceremony

MSc Alumni

Mr. Nir Rotem : (MSc conferred June 02) – Continued to El-Op Comp.
Towards Numerical Simulation of HIP Processes, densification of powder material, using HKS/Abaqus – Funded project.
Mr. Ofer Adan : (MSc conferred April 02) - Continued to Applied Materials Comp. (Co-supervision with Dr. Schneck – Material Eng Dept.)
Thermo-Elastic Failure Investigation of Electronic Components, using Stress Check – Funded project.
Ms. Netta Omer : (MSc conferred Oct 03) – Continued to a PhD degree.
Edge Flux Intensity Functions in 3-D Domains.
Mr. Meidad Korengold : (MSc conferred Jan 04) – Continued to NRCN
Large Plastic Deformations of Metals, using ABAQUS – Funded project.
Ms. Elena Urman: (MSc conferred July 04) – Continued to PhD in Appl. Math.
Numerical simulation of engineering problems with singular points.
Mrs. Michal Peleg-Lubovsky : (MSc conferred May 05) - Continued to Teva Industries.
On constitutive laws for the carotid artery – Funded project.
Mr. Royi Fedida : (MSc conferred Feb 06) - Continued to Rafael Industries.
Finite element analysis of a healthy and fractured femora bone – Funded project.
Mr. Elad Priel: (MSc conferred Aug 07) – Continued to a PhD degree.
Mechanical failure criteria for brittle elastic materials containing V-notches under mixed mode loading – Funded project.
Ms. Shani Weissberg (MSc conferred Oct 10) – Continued to Systematics LTD.
Finite element analysis for a plastic process with large strains.
Ms. Brigit Ben-Ami (MSc conferred Oct 10) – Continued to a PhD degree.
Failure initiation in 3-D elastic brittle structures – Funded project.
Mr. David Tal (MSc conferred Apr 11) – Completed a PhD degree at Columbia, USA.
Yield laws for the human femur – Funded project.
Mr. Alon Katz (MSc conferred Aug 11) – Moved to the USA – Studies towards a PhD degree at Georgia Tech.
The mechanical response of femurs fixed by metallic devices.
Mrs. Romina Plitman Mayo: (MSc conferred Aug 13) – Completed a PhD at Cambridge, England.
Predicting the mechanical response of human femurs with metastatic tumors using patient-specific p-FEMs – Funded project.
Mr. Natan Levin: (MSc conferred June 15) – In the IDF.
On hole-bone failure laws for human femurs.
Ms. Hadar Frenkel: (MSc conferred June 15) - at El-Op.
Towards implementation of a structural constitutive law in a FE model of the heart.
Mr. Itay Manor: (MSc conferred June 15) – At Rafael.
Experiments to determine the mechanical properties of arteries – GIF funded project.
Mr. Yosi Levi: (MSc conferred June 16) – At Israel Armament Industry now towards a PhD degree in Industrial Eng at TAU. Development of a Java p-FE code for the analysis of bones and arteries.
Ms. Sigal David : (MSc conferred June 17) (Co-Supervised by Kobi Bortman) – At IAI.
Failure laws of pultrusion composites – MAFAT funded project.
Mr. Ofry Yoseph : (MSc conferred June 17 ) (Co-Supervised by prof. Gidi Sahar – Soroka Medical Center)
On the passive and active constitutive laws of arteries – GIF funded project.
Mr. Snir Lugasi: (MSc conferred June 17 ) (Co-Supervised by Kobi Bortman) – At Rafael.
Mechanical properties of pultrusion composites – MAFAT funded project.
Mr. Itay Yacobi : (MSc conferred June 18) – At IAI.
A Java based p-FE code.
Mr. Or Shaviv : (MSc conferred June 20) – At Nvidia.
Insights on Micromechanical Models of Active Response of Arteries.
Ms. Shirli Cherevatsky (MSc conferred June 21) - At IAI. Experimental and numerical investigation of delamination in pultruded composites & insights on phase-field methods - MAFAT funded project.
Ms. Vered Mendelovich (MSc conferred Dec 21). Failure initiation at V-notch tips in materials with a SSY - ISF funded project.
Ms. Leetal Eliahu (MSc conferred March 23). FEA of femurs in the context of multiple myeloma - Ichilov funded project.
Mrs. Sahar Benjamin-Amsterdam (MSc conferred March 23) - at Pi-Cardia. FEA of a functional spine unit.
Mr. Aviad Galer (MSc conferred June 23). Experimental investigation of active response of arteries
Mr. Oren Rachmil (MSc conferred 24) Autonomous finite element analyses of femurs with metastatic tumors - MOST funded project (Italy-Israel collaboration).