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Anders Eriksson

Professor
Phone: +46 8 790 79 50
Fax: +46 8 790 75 77
E-mail: anderse@mech.kth.se
WWW: Personal homepage


Education

MSc. (civ.eng), KTH 1976
Dr. (Steel Structures), KTH 1981
Docent (Struct. Eng., comp. methods), KTH 1988

Professional history

Professor of Structural Mechanics, KTH, 1992-
Vice President of KTH, 1999-2007
Before 2001-07-01 working at the department of Struct. Eng., KTH.

Research and Professional Activities

Research in numerical modelling of advanced load-carrying structures. Stability investigations, and numerical techniques, primarily related to shells and other slender structures. Finite element forms for the load-carrying structures. Biomechanical modelling of primarily the human musculoskeletal system, including fatigue and extreme contraction effects on muscles. Numerical methods for the optimization of load-paths in the redundant muscular system. Numerical methods for the evaluation of targeted dynamic movements in the redundant system.

Teaching activity

Leader for the following list of courses.
For the complete list of courses at mechanics, see the course page

CourseProg. TitleStudiehandbok
SG2860  All  FEM Modelling [swe] [eng]
SG1107  Mechanics [swe] [eng]
SG1801  Structural Mechanics, Basic Course [swe] [eng]
SG2803  Numerical Modelling and Simulation [swe] [eng]

Publications

Please note that this list might not be complete. Follow each article link for additional authors.
Year Title
2013 Modeling of articular cartilage growth around localized defect-filling metal implant
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering  
2013 Modeling of constrained articular cartilage growth in an intact knee with focal knee resurfacing metal implant
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology  
2012 Time dependent behavior of cartilage surrounding a metal implant for full thickness cartilage defects of various sizes: a finite element study
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 11 731-742
2012 Improving Bending Stiffness of Tensegrity Booms
International Journal of Space Structures  
2012 Instability of thin hyper-elastic space membranes under pressure loads
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg  
2012 Optimum pre-stress selection for tensegrity structures
10th WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS (WCCM 2012)  
2012 Modeling of Articular Cartilage Growth
10th International Symposium on Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 11-14th April, Berlin, Germany  
2012 Optimization of power input in simulated cross-country skiing
Structural and multidisciplinary optimization  
2012 Numerical modeling of thin pressurized membranes
Proc CST-2012  
2012 Force enhancement and force depression in a modified muscle model used for activation prediction
  
2012 MULTI-PARAMETRIC STABILITY INVESTIGATIONS FOR PRESSURIZED THIN MEMBRANES
Proc. ECCOMAS 2012  
2012 Parametric study of various tensegrity modules as building blocks for slender booms
  
2011 Activation dynamics in the optimization of targeted movements
Computers & Structures 89 968-976
2011 Optimization in simulations of human movement planning
Int. j. Numerical Methods in Engineering 87 1127-1147
2011 Finite element simulations of a focal knee resurfacing implant applied to localized cartilage defects in a sheep model
Journal of Biomechanics 44 794-801
2011 Quasi-static simulations of thin space membranes, aiming at stability analyses of balloon-like structures
Proc COMPDYN 2011  
2011 Application of flexibility analysis for design of tensegrity structures
Structural Engineering World Congress (SEWC)   
2011 Simulating metal implants in full thickness cartilage defects
ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference  
2011 History effect and timing of force production introduced in a skeletal muscle model
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology  
2011 Introducing timing and history effects in muscular models
  
2011 Sensitivity analysis of Snelson-type tensegrity booms due to member loss
24rd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Finland, 3-4 November, 2011  
2010 Temporal finite element formulation of optimal control in mechanisms
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 199 1783-1792
2010 Quasi-static inflation simulations based on a co-rotational triangular space membrane element
Int. J. Struct. Stab. Dyn.  
2010 Free-time optimization of targeted movements based on temporal FE approximation
Proc. CST2010, Valencia  
2010 Flexibility-based pre-stress design of tensegrity structures
International Journal of Solids and Structures  
2010 Stiffness visualization for tensegrity structures
23rd Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-22 October, 2010  130-133
2009 Mechanical work as predictor of force enhancement and force depression
Journal of Biomechanics 42 1628-1634
2008 Optimal simulations of musculoskeletal posture and movement
Comp. Exp. Simul. Eng. Sci. 1 39-56
2008 Optimization in target movement simulations
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 197 4207-4215
2008 Optimality in forward dynamics simulations
Journal of Biomechanics 41 1213-1221
2008 Muscular force production after concentric contraction
Journal of Biomechanics 41 2422-2429
2008 Optimization techniques in human movement analysis
Proc. Comput Struct Techn 2008  
2008 Analysis of the optimal design strategy of a magnetorheological smart structure
Smart Materials and Structures 17 15047
2007 Temporal finite elements for target control dynamics of mechanisms
Computers & Structures 85 1399-1408
2007 Computational Structures Technology
Computers & Structures 85 1281-1283
2007 Engineering computational technology
Adv. in Eng. Software 38 723-725
2006 Redundant and force-differentiated systems in engineering and nature
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 195 5437-5453
2006 Criteria for optimality in movements (contribution to 5th WCB, Munich)
Journal of Biomechanics 39, suppl 1 S54
2006 Optimization of targeted movements
Proc. ECCM-2006, Lisbon CD-ROM 
2006 Numerical simulations of skeletal muscle mechanics
Proc. CST-2006, Gran Canaria  
2006 Optimal simulations for human and robotic movements
Proc NSCM-19, Lund  
2005 Influence of electrical and thermal properties on RF ablation of breast cancer: is the tumour preferentially heated?
BioMedical Engineering OnLine 4 41
2005 Numerical study of effect of vitreous support on eye accommodation
Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics 7(2) 3-16
2005 Co-rotational thin membrane elements
Proc. IASS-IACM 2005  
2005 Analysis methodology based on temporal FEM for bio-mechanical simulations
Modelling in Medicine and Biology VI  295-304
2005 Aspects of eye accommodation evaluated by finite elements
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology  
2004 Temporal finite element descriptions in structural dynamics
Proceedings, CST 2004  211--212
2004 NSCM-17: Proceedings of the 17th Nordic seminar on computational mechanics
KTH Mechanics  
2003 Improved minimal augmentation procedure for the direct computation of critical points
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 192 2169-2185
2002 Element formulation and numerical techniques for stability problems in shells
Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg 191 3775-3810
2002 Some aspects of shell instability analyses
Proc. 2nd Can. Conf. on Nonlinear Sol. Mech.  485--494
2001 Solution surfaces and generalised paths in non-linear structural mechanics
Int. J. Struct. Stab. Dyn. 1 1-30
2001 Shell instability phenomena studied by multi-parametric non-linear analyses.
Proc, ECCOMAS 2001  
2000 Parameterisation of rotations in co-rotational elements
Proceedings Euromech 2000, Metz  
2000 Non-linear shell instability analyses in a multi-parametric setting (invited lecture)
Proc ECCOMAS 2000 (CD)  
2000 Two-dimensional solution sets for parameterized non-linear equilibrium
Proc. IASS-IACM 2000  
2000 Stability analyses in shell structures - element formulation and numerical techniques (invited lecture)
Proc. IASS-IACM 2000  
2000 Parameter dependence in the critical behaviour of shell structures: a numerical approach.
Proc. IASS-IACM 2000  

Projects

Please note that this list might not be complete.
Period Title Area
2010-2012 Muscle-driven human movements Biomechanics
2009-2010 Balloon mechanics Theoretical and computational mechanics
2002-2009 Biomechanical modelling of eye accomodation Biomechanics
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