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#### **Pooria Afzali, Reza Ghomashchi and Reza H. Oskouei**


## **About the Special Issue Editor**

**Reza Hashemi** (former name: Hashemi Oskouei) is an academic at the College of Science and Engineering and Research Leader in the Medical Device Research Institute at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Monash University in Australia. His primary research interests include the mechanical behaviour of metallic biomaterials as well as their processing, characterisation, testing and failure, fretting wear and corrosion in metallic implants, and fatigue and fracture analysis. Dr Hashemi's research is both experimental and computational (finite element analysis and modelling), and he has made significant contributions to the field of materials characterisation and failure, in addition to finite element simulations of complex phenomena such as fretting wear and fretting corrosion.
