Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Analysis and Simulation of PTMA Device Deployment into the Coronary Sinus: Impact of Stent Strut Thickness....Pages 1-10
Mechanical identification of hyperelastic anisotropic properties of mouse carotid arteries....Pages 11-17
An Inverse Method to Determine Material Properties of Soft Tissues....Pages 19-32
Estimation of the 3D residual strain field in the arterial wall of a bovine aorta using optical full-field measurements and finite element reconstruction....Pages 33-40
Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity in Vivo Using Magnetic Resonance Elastography....Pages 41-48
Comparison of Iterative and Direct Inversion MR Elastography Algorithms....Pages 49-56
Brain Response to Extracranial Pressure Excitation Imaged in vivo by MR Elastography....Pages 57-64
Mechanical Properties of Abnormal Human Aortic and Mitral Valves....Pages 65-72
Bio-prosthetic Heart Valve Stress Analysis: Impacts of Leaflet Properties and Stent Tip Deflection....Pages 73-78
Mechanical Properties of Human Saphenous Vein....Pages 79-85
The Scleral Inflation Response of Mouse Eyes to Increases in Pressure....Pages 87-92
Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Dungeness Crab Exoskeletons....Pages 93-99
The Mechanical Properties of Tendril of Climbing Plant....Pages 101-104
A Multiscale Triphasic Biomechanical Model for Tumors’ Classification....Pages 105-109
Developing Hyper-Viscoelastic Constitutive Models of Porcine Meniscus from Unconfined Compression Test Data....Pages 111-115
The Mechanical Performance of Teleost Fish Scales....Pages 117-123
Effects of Processing Conditions on Chitosan-Hydroxyapatite Biocomposite Mechanical Properties....Pages 125-130
Mechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly (KAMPS)/aragonite Composite....Pages 131-136
Nanoscale Fracture Resistance Measurement of a Composite Bone Cement....Pages 137-143
Impact Resistance of Antibiotic-Impregnated Orthopedic Bone Cement....Pages 145-151
Use of Nanoindentation for Investigating the Nanostructure of Dentin Tissue....Pages 153-158
Epinephrine Upregulates Sickle Trait Erythrocyte Adhesion to Laminin and Integrins....Pages 159-162
Organ culture modeling of distraction osteogenesis....Pages 163-169
Mechanical Properties of Tooth Enamel: Microstructural Modeling and Characterization....Pages 171-179
A Novel Biomimetic Material Duplicating the Structure and Mechanics of Natural Nacre....Pages 181-187
Adaptive Hybrid Control for Low Resolution Feedback Systems with Application on a Novel Microinjector: Ros-drill....Pages 189-191
Design of a mechatronic positioner for a holographic otoscope system....Pages 193-198
Characterization of Shape and Deformation of Tympanic Membranes by Dual-wavelength Lensless Digital Holography....Pages 199-207
Investigating Mechanical Properties of Porcine Articular Cartilage by Flat Plate Compression Tests....Pages 209-212
Characterization of Tendon Mechanics Following Subfailure Damage....Pages 213-217
Modeling sickle hemoglobin fibers as one chain of coarse-grained particles....Pages 219-224