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Email
rapoff@union.edu
Postal Address
Union College
Mechanical Engineering
807 Union Street
Schenectady, NY 12308-3107
Office
219 Steinmetz Hall
518-388-8384
ME Office 518-388-6264
ME Fax 518-388-6789
Lab
201 Butterfield Hall
518-388-7087
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Michael A. Rapoff,
Ph.D.
(He
ain't heavy - or my Dad
- he's my Brother.)
Metro Marble & Granite
(Dan Rapoff, General Manager)
Emily Kelahan, M.A.
(Ph.D. candidate, UNC)
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Current Term Courses
Senior & Other Student Research Projects
Please visit this page to see what a great
group of students is doing and has done.
Other Term Courses
Research Opportunities
Dr. Rapoff will supervise experimental and analytical
projects in the general areas of bioengineering and solid mechanics, and, in
particular, bone, spine, and orthopedic mechanics; mechanics in physical
anthropology, biology, and other sciences; biomedical statistics and
modeling; and biomimetic structures.
"Thoroughbred Structures"
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At
left, I am holding an equine third metacarpus - a bone in the forearm of a
horse - that contains a natural hole (a foramen), located between my thumb
and index finger in the picture. We all have a similar bone in the
middle of each of our hands. The plate in front was designed based on
compositional variations discovered in the vicinity of this foramen and is
twice as strong as a conventional plate design of the same weight.
This research was conducted with my collaborators Nils Goetzen and Rafi
Haftka and was featured on the Science Update radio program
of the National Association for the Advancement of Science and on a local
TV newscast.
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Recent Conference Publications, Presentations & Posters
- Rapoff AJ, McGraw WS, Daegling DJ. Isostress analysis
of maxillary canines in Cercopithecoid monkeys. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 2009;138(S48):218. Special Issue of the Proceedings
of Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Chicago, IL, 31 March-3 April 2009. (poster)
- Rapoff AJ, McGraw WS, Daegling DJ. Full field
noncontacting strain measurements in the Colobine mandibular symphysis. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 2008;135(S46):177. Special Issue of
the Proceedings of Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Columbus, OH, 9-12 April 2009. (presentation)
- Rapoff AJ, Bucinell RB, McGraw WS, Daegling DJ.
Curved beam model of mandibular symphyseal bending including
heterogeneous elasticity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2007;132(S44):195-6. Special Issue of the Proceedings of Annual
Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Philadelphia, PA, 25-28 April 2008. (poster)
- Rapoff AJ, Brown BW, Daegling DJ. Image-based measure
of torsional stiffness of skeletal elements: incorporating tissue
inhomogeneity with cross-sectional geometry and its implication for
comparative biomechanics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2006;129(S42). Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Anchorage,
AK, 8-12 March 2006. (presentation;
poster)
- Rapoff AJ, Haftka RT. Image-based
interpolation of anisotropic elastic constants. Proceedings of
the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Vail, CO, 22-26 June
2005. (poster)
- Rapoff AJ, Hsiao A, Bucinell RB, Genovese K, Tietz
AM. Preparation
and rehydration effects on compressive properties of cornerstone ASR
cervical spine allografts. Proceedings of the ASME Summer
Bioengineering Conference, Vail, CO, 22-26 June 2005.
- Rapoff AJ, Fontanel O, Venkataraman S. Heterogeneous orthotropic elasticity about a nutrient foramen via microindentation. Proceedings of the ASME Summer Bioengineering
Conference, Key Biscayne, FL, 25-29 June 2003.
- Garita B, Rapoff AJ. Osteon
trajectories near the equine metacarpus nutrient foramen. Proceedings
of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Key Biscayne, FL,
25-29 June 2003.
- Garita B, Rapoff AJ. Damage
about natural and drilled holes in bone. Proceedings of the ASME
Summer Bioengineering Conference, Key Biscayne, FL, 25-29 June 2003.
- Rapoff AJ, Rinaldi RG, Johnson WM, Venkataraman S,
Daegling DJ. Heterogeneous
anisotropic elastic properties in a Macaca fascicularis
mandible. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
2003;120(S36):174-5. (Special Issue of the Proceedings of the Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists)
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