Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5

Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Barton C. Prorok, Franc�ois Barthelat, Chad S. Korach, K. Jane Grande-Allen

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040601778
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012. The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes in Conventional and Multifunctional Materials, Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging Applications, Experimental and Applied Mechanics, MEMS and Nanotechnology and, Composite Materials and Joining Technologies for Composites.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 Effect of Crystallite Orientation on Nanomechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite
• Chapter 2 Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Sunflower Stem for Bio-composite Applications
• Chapter 3 Long-Range Mechanical Force Enables Self-Assembly of Epithelial Tubules
• Chapter 4 Effects of Membrane Composition and Cytoskeletal Proteins on Membrane Mechanics
• Chapter 5 Interfacial Fracture Toughness of Nacre
• Chapter 6 New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre
• Chapter 7 Thermal Analyses of Dental Ceramic Restorations
• Chapter 8 Visualization of Micro-cracks in Compact Bovine Bone
• Chapter 9 Humanlike Robots: Synthetically Mimicking Humans
• Chapter 10 Porous Hydroxyapatite-Polyhydroxybutyrate Composites Fabricated by a Novel Method Via Centrifugation
• Chapter 11 Isolation of Collagen from Cortical Bovine Bone for Preparation of Porous Collagen Sponges
• Chapter 12 An Immersed Finite Element Method Approach for Brain Biomechanics
• Chapter 13 Brain Mechanical Imaging (BMI)
• Chapter 14 Characterization of Murine Glioma by Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Preliminary Results
• Chapter 15 Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Moduli of Cortical and Trabecular Bone
• Chapter 16 Quasi-static Compressive and Tensile Tests on Cancellous Bone in Human Cervical Spine
• Chapter 17 Utilizing Digital Image Correlation to Capture Strains in Dental Applications
• Chapter 18 Untangling a Sticky Problem: The Tensile Properties of Natural Silks
• Chapter 19 Biomimetic Tapered Fibers for Enhanced Composite Toughness
• Chapter 20 Improved Instrumented Indentation of Soft Materials through Surface Deformation Measurements
• Chapter 21 The Surface Tribological and Mechanical Behaviors of Silicone-Based Hydrogel Materials
• Chapter 22 Assessment of Corneal Deformation Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation
• Chapter 23 The Effects of Noise and Spatial Sampling on Identification of Material Parameters by Magnetic Resonance Elastography
• Chapter 24 Tracking Cortical Surface Deformation Using Stereovision
• Chapter 25 Effect of Stress Relief Process on Mechanical Performance of MP35N Cable as Lead Conductor in Medical Device
• Chapter 26 The Time Dependent Mechanical Properties of Bovine Enamel
• Chapter 27 Mechanical Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate (PEGDA) for Tissue Engineering Applications
• Chapter 28 Developing a Microloading Platform for Applications in Mechanotransduction Research
• Chapter 29 Direct Measurements of the Cohesive Behavior of Soft Biological Interfaces
• Chapter 30 Experiments on Hydrogels of Varying Shape