David Henann

About

David Henann is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Brown University. His research interests include theoretical and computational mechanics, granular materials, and soft materials. He is involved in undergraduate research and serves as a concentration advisor within the Mechanical Engineering department. Henann is also recognized for sharing a $1.7 million ONR grant as part of the larger PANTHER program, highlighting his active engagement in significant research initiatives.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Mechanics
• Composite material
• Classical mechanics
• Physics

Selected publications

• Modeling tissue-selective cavitation damage

  Physics in Medicine and Biology · 2019-10-22 · 74 citations

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  The destructive growth and collapse of cavitation bubbles are used for therapeutic purposes in focused ultrasound procedures and can contribute to tissue damage in traumatic injuries. Histotripsy is a focused ultrasound procedure that relies on controlled cavitation to homogenize soft tissue. Experimental studies of histotripsy cavitation have shown that the extent of ablation in different tissues depends on tissue mechanical properties and waveform parameters. Variable tissue susceptibility to…

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• Experimental characterization and hyperelastic constitutive modeling of open-cell elastomeric foams

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2019-08-23 · 42 citations

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• Large-deformation constitutive modeling of viscoelastic foams: Application to a closed-cell foam material

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2022-02-05 · 22 citations

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• High-Speed, Full-Field Deformation Measurements Near Inertial Microcavitation Bubbles Inside Viscoelastic Hydrogels

  Experimental Mechanics · 2022-09-15 · 18 citations

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• Dynamic Shearing Resistance of an Energetic Material Simulant: Sucrose

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2021-08-29 · 14 citations

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Recent grants

• CAREER: A continuum model for simultaneous prediction of granular flow and size-segregation in general geometries

  NSF · $508k · 2016–2022

Frequent coauthors

• Christian Franck

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  41 shared

• Daren Liu

  Brown University

  33 shared

• Alexander K. Landauer

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  20 shared

• Ken Kamrin

  20 shared

• Hadley Witt

  Brown University

  14 shared

• Michael Jandron

  13 shared

• Zicheng Yan

  12 shared

• Xiuqi Li

  Chongqing University of Science and Technology

  12 shared

Awards & honors

• $1.7M ONR grant as part of larger PANTHER program

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• Huajian Gaoh-156
• John Donoghueh-127
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