IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics : Proceedings of the IUTAM symposium held at Woods Hole, Mass., USA, June 18-21, 2008 - Garikipati, Krishna; Arruda, Ellen M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Tissue Mechanics -- Experimental and Computational Investigation of Viscoelasticity of Native and Engineered Ligament and Tendon -- A Comparison of a Nonlinear and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Fibrous Tissues -- Hysteretic Behavior of Ligaments and Tendons: Microstructural Analysis of Damage, Softening and Non-Recoverable Strain -- On Measuring Stress Distributions in Epithelia -- A Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Soft Collageneous Tissues Based on Distributed Fiber-Matrix Units -- Cell-substrate Interactions -- Chemical and Mechanical Micro-Diversity of the Extracellular Matrix -- Tissue-to-Cellular Deformation Coupling in Cell-Microintegrated Elastomeric Scaffolds -- Orientational Polarizability and Stress Response of Biological Cells -- Universal Temporal Response of Fibroblasts Adhering on Cyclically Stretched Substrates -- Mechanics of DNA -- Elastic and Electrostatic Model for DNA in Rotation-Extension Experiments -- Shape and Energetics of DNA Plectonemes -- Mechanics of Biopolymer Networks -- Constitutive Models for the Force-Extension Behavior of Biological Filaments -- Small Strain Topological Effects of Biopolymer Networks with Rigid Cross-Links -- Cell adhesion -- An Observation on Bell's Model for Molecular Bond Separation Under Force -- A Theoretical Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Focal Adhesion Dynamics -- Tension-Induced Growth of Focal Adhesions at Cell-Substrate Interface -- Pattern Formation and Force Generation by Cell Ensembles in a Filamentous Matrix -- Mechano-Chemical Coupling in Shell Adhesion -- Catch-to-Slip Bond Transition in Biological Bonds by Entropic and Energetic Elasticity -- Growth -- Dilation and Hypertrophy: A Cell-Based Continuum Mechanics Approach Towards Ventricular Growth and Remodeling -- A Morpho-Elastic Model of Hyphal Tip Growth in Filamentous Organisms -- Extracellular Control of Limb Regeneration -- Poroelasticity of Bone -- Bone Composite Mechanics Related to Collagen Hydration State.
Keywords: Biomaterials; Cell biology; Biomathematics; Mechanics; Biophysics; Biological physics; Biomaterials; Cell Biology; Mathematical and Computational Biology; Classical Mechanics; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics