(Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials)
Symposium Organizers:
Ange-Therese Akono, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
aakono@illinois.edu
Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
elbanna2@illinois.edu
Nima Rahbar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
nrahbar@wpi.edu
Huajian Gao, Brown University
Huajian_Gao@brown.edu
Symposium Technical Description
The goal of this mini-symposium is to describe recent advances in the modelling and assessment of inelastic behavior and failure response of biological materials such as compact bone, trabecular bone, dentin, antler, bamboo, etc. All types of biological materials (hard and soft biological tissues) at all length scales (macroscopic, microscopic and molecular) are welcomed. Especially encouraged are contributions that seek to:
- (i) Develop novel experimental testing methods for fracture and inelastic behavior in biological tissues (characterization of risk of fracture, novel imaging techniques, micromechanisms of failure, etc.)
- (ii) Build novel theoretical and computational models to assess and predict inelastic behavior in hard and soft biological tissues (e.g. multi-scale fracture models, FEM methods, etc.)
- (iii) Formulate coupled multi-physics approaches in biological tissues (e.g. couple mechanical deformation, fluid diffusion in soft materials or piezoelectricity in hard tissues…etc.)
Technical Program
Wednesday | W1 10:00am-11:40am
| C7-1: Advances in Mechanics of Inelastic Deformation and Failure in Biological Materials | ||
| Room 0102 |
Session Chair: Ange-Therese Akono, Ahmed Elbanna, Nima Rahbar, Huajian Gao | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 10:00 am | The structure and mechanics of key interfaces within biological and bio-inspired materials (Invited)
Francois Barthelat |
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| 10:40 am | Numerical investigation of the influence of organic interfacial properties on the mechanical behaviors of extrafibrillar matrix in bone
Liqiang Lin, Xiaowei Zeng, Xiaodu Wang |
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| 11:00 am | Analytical studies on organic-inorganic interface in nacreous structures
Sina Askarinejad |
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| 11:20 am | Micromechanism and multiscale modeling of diffuse damage in bone
Zehai Wang |
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