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IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics Proceedings of the IUTAM symposium held at Woods Hole, Mass., USA, June 18-21, 2008 /

These are the proceedings of an IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics, held in the summer of 2008 at Woods Hole, Mass, USA. This groundbreaking meeting brought together mechanicians having an interest in biological systems, with biophysicists and biologists in order to address...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Garikipati, Krishna (Editor ), Arruda, Ellen M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Colección:IUTAM Bookseries, 16
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tissue Mechanics
  • Experimental and Computational Investigation of Viscoelasticity of Native and Engineered Ligament and Tendon
  • A Comparison of a Nonlinear and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Fibrous Tissues
  • Hysteretic Behavior of Ligaments and Tendons: Microstructural Analysis of Damage, Softening and Non-Recoverable Strain
  • On Measuring Stress Distributions in Epithelia
  • A Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Soft Collageneous Tissues Based on Distributed Fiber-Matrix Units
  • Cell-substrate Interactions
  • Chemical and Mechanical Micro-Diversity of the Extracellular Matrix
  • Tissue-to-Cellular Deformation Coupling in Cell-Microintegrated Elastomeric Scaffolds
  • Orientational Polarizability and Stress Response of Biological Cells
  • Universal Temporal Response of Fibroblasts Adhering on Cyclically Stretched Substrates
  • Mechanics of DNA
  • Elastic and Electrostatic Model for DNA in Rotation-Extension Experiments
  • Shape and Energetics of DNA Plectonemes
  • Mechanics of Biopolymer Networks
  • Constitutive Models for the Force-Extension Behavior of Biological Filaments
  • Small Strain Topological Effects of Biopolymer Networks with Rigid Cross-Links
  • Cell adhesion
  • An Observation on Bell's Model for Molecular Bond Separation Under Force
  • A Theoretical Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Focal Adhesion Dynamics
  • Tension-Induced Growth of Focal Adhesions at Cell-Substrate Interface
  • Pattern Formation and Force Generation by Cell Ensembles in a Filamentous Matrix
  • Mechano-Chemical Coupling in Shell Adhesion
  • Catch-to-Slip Bond Transition in Biological Bonds by Entropic and Energetic Elasticity
  • Growth
  • Dilation and Hypertrophy: A Cell-Based Continuum Mechanics Approach Towards Ventricular Growth and Remodeling
  • A Morpho-Elastic Model of Hyphal Tip Growth in Filamentous Organisms
  • Extracellular Control of Limb Regeneration
  • Poroelasticity of Bone
  • Bone Composite Mechanics Related to Collagen Hydration State.