Technische Universität München

Zohar Yosibash is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (since 1995) and the Head of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory. He received his B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1987 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics in 1991 from Tel-Aviv University in Israel and his D.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Zohar spent a year as a visiting assistant professor at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Washington University during 1994-1995, and a year as a visiting associate professor at the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA during 2002-2003. During 2003-2007 he held a visiting associate professorship at Brown University. Since March 2006 he serves as a member of advisory board of the Bavarian graduate school of computational engineering.

Feb 2009 Toronto prize for the “best researcher'” in the faculty of engineering, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Aug 2002 - July 2003 IBM distinguished professorship at the Div.of Applied Math, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

More publications are available here.

Trabelsi N., Yosibash Z. and Milgrom C., "Validation of subject specific automated p-FE analysis of the proximal femur", Jour. of Biomechanics, 42 (2009) pp. 234–241.

Yosibash Z., Trabelsi N. and Hellmich C., "Subject-specific p-FE analysis of the proximal femur utilizing micromechanics based material properties", Int. Jour. for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 6, Issue 5, (2008) pp. 483–498.

Heisserer U., Hartmann S., Duester A., Bier W., Yosibash Z. and Rank E.,"p-FEM for finite deformation powder compaction'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 197 (2008), pp. 727–-740.

Yosibash Z., Trabelsi N. and Milgrom C., "Reliable simulations of the human proximal femur by high-order finite element analysis validated by experimental observations'', Jour. of Biomechanics, 40 (2007), pp. 3688-3699.

Yosibash Z., Padan R., Joscowicz, L. and Milgrom, C.,"A CT-based high-order finite element analysis of the human proximal femur compared to in-vitro experiments'', ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 129(3) (2007), pp. 297 - 309.

Foo Jasmine, Yosibash Z. and Karniadakis G, "Stochastic simulation of riser-sections with uncertain measured pressure loads and/or uncertain material properties'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196 (2007), pp. 4250–4271.

Yosibash Z., Hartmann S., Heisserer U., Duester A., Rank E. and Szanto M., "Axisymmetric pressure boundary loading for finite deformation analysis using p-FEM'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196 (2007), pp. 1261–-1277.

Yosibash Z., and Omer N., "Numerical methods for extracting edge stress intensity functions in anisotropic three dimensional domains'', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196 (2007), pp. 3624–-3649.

Yosibash Z., Omer N., Costabel M. and Dauge, M., "Edge stress intensity functions in polyhedral domains and their extraction by a quasidual function method'', Int. Jour. of Fracture, 136 (2005), pp. 37-73.

Yosibash Z., Bussiba A. and Gilad, I., "Failure criteria for brittle elastic materials'', Int. Jour. of Fracture, 125, No. 3-4 (2004), pp. 307-333.

Zohar's recent topic of research is computational biomechanics (high and p-version finite element methods) with emphasis on bone mechanics and the mechanical response of blood vessels. Other topics of research are the mathematical and numerical analysis of singularities in two and three dimensional domains and their connection with failure initiation and propagation, and the performance of p-version FE methods for nonlinear problems in solid mechanics.