Relevant Publications:

1. Waghorne, J., Bonomo, F.P., Rabbani, A., Bell, D. and Barrera, O., 2024. On the characteristics of natural hydraulic dampers: An image-based approach to study the fluid flow behaviour inside the human meniscal tissue. Acta Biomaterialia, 175, pp.157-169.

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   Gunda, S., Natarajan, S. and Barrera, O., 2023. On the fractional transversely isotropic functionally graded nature of soft biological tissues: Application to the meniscal tissue. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 143, p.105855.

3. Sancataldo, G., Barrera, O., Vetri, V. (2022). Two-Photon Imaging. In: Nechyporuk-Zloy, V. (eds) Principles of Light Microscopy: From Basic to Advanced . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04477-9_9

4. Elmukashfi, E., Marchiori, G., Berni, M., Cassiolas, G., Lopomo, N.F., Rappel, H., Girolami, M. and Barrera, O., 2022. Model selection and sensitivity analysis in the biomechanics of soft tissues: A case study on the human knee meniscus. Advances in applied mechanics, 55, pp.425-511.

5. Bulle, R., Alotta, G., Marchiori, G., Berni, M., Lopomo, N.F., Zaffagnini, S., Bordas, S.P. and Barrera, O., 2021. The human meniscus behaves as a functionally graded fractional porous medium under confined compression conditions. Applied sciences, 11(20), p.9405.

6. Agustoni, G., Maritz, J., Kennedy, J., Bonomo, F.P., Bordas, S.P. and Barrera, O., 2021. High resolution micro-computed tomography reveals a network of collagen channels in the body region of the knee meniscus. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 49, pp.2273-2281.

7. Bonomo, F.P., Gregory, J.J. and Barrera, O., 2020. A procedure for slicing and characterizing soft heterogeneous and irregular-shaped tissue. Materials Today: Proceedings, 33.

8. Maritz, J., Murphy, F., Dragnevski, K. and Barrera, O., 2020. Development and optimisation of micromechanical testing techniques to study the properties of meniscal tissue. Materials Today: Proceedings, 33, pp.1954-1958.

9. Vetri, V., Dragnevski, K., Tkaczyk, M., Zingales, M., Marchiori, G., Lopomo, N.F., Zaffagnini, S., Bondi, A., Kennedy, J.A., Murray, D.W. and Barrera, O., 2019. Advanced microscopy analysis of the micro-nanoscale architecture of human menisci. Scientific reports, 9(1), p.18732.

10. Barrera, O. A unified modelling and simulation for coupled anomalous transport in porous media and its finite element implementation. Comput Mech 68, 1267–1282 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-021-02067-

11. Maritz J, Agustoni G, Dragnevski K, Bordas SPA, Barrera O. The Functionally Grading Elastic and Viscoelastic Properties of the Body Region of the Knee Meniscus. Ann Biomed Eng. 2021 Sep;49(9):2421-2429. doi: 10.1007/s10439-021-02792-1. Epub 2021 Jun 1. PMID: 34075449; PMCID: PMC8455388.

12. Gunda S, Giammarini A, Ramírez-Torres A, Natarajan S, Barrera O, Grillo A. Fractionalization of Forchheimer’s correction to Darcy’s law in porous media in large deformations. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. 2024;30(4):809-849. doi:10.1177/10812865241252577

13. Gunda, S., Natarajan, S., & Barrera, O. (2023). On the fractional transversely isotropic functionally graded nature of soft biological tissues: Application to the meniscal tissue. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 143, 105855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105855

14. Sterling, W., Gunda, S., Kikinov, K., Waghorne, J., Mirghafari, R., Natarajan, S., Rudykh, S., Dragnevski, K., Bell, D., & Barrera, O. (2025). Bioinspired dampers: Meniscus-inspired energy dissipation components. Materials & Design, 251, 113639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.113639