We received over 50 research paper entries to the SIMULIA Travel Awards Contest, from every aspect of bioengineering and from all around the world. All the papers were impressive, and we are very excited to see so much advanced research taking place using Abaqus. After much deliberation, we chose five winners of the SIMULIA Travel Awards:

“Development of a Three-Dimensional Finite Element Model of the Hand and Wrist”

by Max Gong, Michele Oliver, Robert Dony and Anton Semechko

“Automatic Generation of Virtual Lumbar Motion Segments for Population-Based Simulation of Lumbar Spine Biomechanics”

by Kelli S. Huls and Anthony J. Petrella

“Mitral Valve Finite Element Modeling from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Patient-Specifc Quantitative Analysis”

by M. Stevanella, F. Maffessanti, E. Votta, E.G. Caiani, and A. Redaelli

“MRI-Based Finite Element Modeling of Head Trauma: Spherically Focusing Shear Waves”

by Ying Chen and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

“Evaluating the Risk of Aortic Endograft Migration Using Iterative Fluid-Structural Coupling”

by Anamika Prasad, C. Alberto Figueroa, Xiao- Yan Gong, Charles A. Taylor, and Christopher K. Zarins

Each winning paper is being presented at a conference worldwide, and the authors will receive a \\\$500 dollar contribution from SIMULIA towards their travel expenses.

Thank you to all the applicants, and congratulations to the winners!

If you would like to see the winning papers, just take a look at the attached files.