(Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials)
Symposium Organizers:
Michael Sacks, University of Texas at Austin
msacks@ices.utexas.edu
Ellen Arruda, University of Michigan
arruda@umich.edu
Symposium Technical Description
Continuing the success of similar SES 2015 sessions, we propose the following symposium. Soft tissues can be inelastic, heterogeneous, non-linear, anisotropic, and actively variable on multiple times scales (i.e., muscle contraction, growth, and remodeling). Ongoing complications associated with material modeling and characterization are encountered in applications involving soft tissues, and hence, there is a continuous need for improvement in theory, experiments, and applications. The proposed symposia are intended to give engineering scientists a forum to discuss the latest results, applications and contemporary problems encountered in highly deformable tissues.
Technical Program
Wednesday | W1 10:00am-11:40am
| C8-1: Soft Tissue Mechanics: Theoretical Considerations, Experimental Results, and Applications | ||
| Room 0105 | Session Chair: Michael Sacks, Ellen Arruda | Track C: Mechanics of Biological and Soft Materials |
| 10:00 am | Long-range force transmission in fibrous matrices enabled by tension-driven alignment of fibers
Vivek Shenoy |
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| 10:20 am | 3D micromechanical characterization of extracellular matrices
Mohak Patel, Christian Franck |
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| 10:40 am | Mechanical characterization of the cuticle of caenorhabditis elegans and its age related changes
Mohammad Rahimi Rahimi Lenji, Howard A. Stone, Coleen T. Murphy |
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| 11:00 am | A functionally graded material model for the transmural stress distribution of the aortic valve leaflet
Bruno Vale Rego |
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| 11:40 am | Comparison of five models of thoracic aortic aneurysms reveals a distinct biomechanical phenotype
Jay D. Humphrey |
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