Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Effect of Crystallite Orientation on Nanomechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite....Pages 1-6
Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Sunflower Stem for Bio-composite Applications....Pages 7-13
Long-Range Mechanical Force Enables Self-Assembly of Epithelial Tubules....Pages 15-21
Effects of Membrane Composition and Cytoskeletal Proteins on Membrane Mechanics....Pages 23-29
Interfacial Fracture Toughness of Nacre....Pages 31-38
New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre....Pages 39-44
Thermal Analyses of Dental Ceramic Restorations....Pages 45-50
Visualization of Micro-cracks in Compact Bovine Bone....Pages 51-55
Humanlike Robots: Synthetically Mimicking Humans....Pages 57-61
Porous Hydroxyapatite-Polyhydroxybutyrate Composites Fabricated by a Novel Method Via Centrifugation....Pages 63-71
Isolation of Collagen from Cortical Bovine Bone for Preparation of Porous Collagen Sponges....Pages 73-78
An Immersed Finite Element Method Approach for Brain Biomechanics....Pages 79-86
Brain Mechanical Imaging (BMI)....Pages 87-92
Characterization of Murine Glioma by Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Preliminary Results....Pages 93-98
Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Moduli of Cortical and Trabecular Bone....Pages 99-107
Quasi-static Compressive and Tensile Tests on Cancellous Bone in Human Cervical Spine....Pages 109-118
Utilizing Digital Image Correlation to Capture Strains in Dental Applications....Pages 119-126
Untangling a Sticky Problem: The Tensile Properties of Natural Silks....Pages 127-134
Biomimetic Tapered Fibers for Enhanced Composite Toughness....Pages 135-140
Improved Instrumented Indentation of Soft Materials through Surface Deformation Measurements....Pages 141-147
The Surface Tribological and Mechanical Behaviors of Silicone-Based Hydrogel Materials....Pages 149-153
Assessment of Corneal Deformation Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation....Pages 155-160
The Effects of Noise and Spatial Sampling on Identification of Material Parameters by Magnetic Resonance Elastography....Pages 161-168
Tracking Cortical Surface Deformation Using Stereovision....Pages 169-176
Effect of Stress Relief Process on Mechanical Performance of MP35N Cable as Lead Conductor in Medical Device....Pages 177-182
The Time Dependent Mechanical Properties of Bovine Enamel....Pages 183-187
Mechanical Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate (PEGDA) for Tissue Engineering Applications....Pages 189-195
Developing a Microloading Platform for Applications in Mechanotransduction Research....Pages 197-205
Direct Measurements of the Cohesive Behavior of Soft Biological Interfaces....Pages 207-215
Experiments on Hydrogels of Varying Shape....Pages 217-222