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Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5

Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Barton C. Prorok

    1. Auburn University, Auburn, USA

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  2. François Barthelat

    1. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  3. Chad S. Korach

    1. State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

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  4. K. Jane Grande-Allen

    1. Rice University, Houston, USA

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  5. Elizabeth Lipke

    1. Auburn University, Auburn, USA

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  6. George Lykofatitits

    1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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  7. Pablo Zavattieri

    1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

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  • This is the fifth volume in the Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Effect of Crystallite Orientation on Nanomechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite

    • Chad S. Korach, Ranjith Krishna Pai
    Pages 1-6

  3. Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Sunflower Stem for Bio-composite Applications

    • S. Sun, J. D. Mathias, Evelyne Toussaint, M. Grédiac
    Pages 7-13

  4. Long-Range Mechanical Force Enables Self-Assembly of Epithelial Tubules

    • Chin-Lin Guo, Mingxing Ouyang, Jiun-Yann Yu
    Pages 15-21

  5. Effects of Membrane Composition and Cytoskeletal Proteins on Membrane Mechanics

    • Nima Khatibzadeh, Brenda Farrell, William E. Brownell, Bahman Anvari
    Pages 23-29

  6. Interfacial Fracture Toughness of Nacre

    • Reza Rabiei, Ahmad Khayer Dastjerdi, Francois Barthelat
    Pages 31-38

  7. New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre

    • Marianne Sullivan, Barton C. Prorok
    Pages 39-44

  8. Thermal Analyses of Dental Ceramic Restorations

    • Barry Hojjatie, W. Bartholomew, H. Garmestani
    Pages 45-50

  9. Visualization of Micro-cracks in Compact Bovine Bone

    • Srinivasan Arjun Tekalur, Wei Zhang, Andy Vanderklok
    Pages 51-55

  10. Humanlike Robots: Synthetically Mimicking Humans

    • Yoseph Bar-Cohen
    Pages 57-61

  11. Porous Hydroxyapatite-Polyhydroxybutyrate Composites Fabricated by a Novel Method Via Centrifugation

    • Michael M. Porter, Steve Lee, Nuttapol Tanadchangsaeng, Matt J. Jaremko, Jian Yu, Marc Meyers et al.
    Pages 63-71

  12. Isolation of Collagen from Cortical Bovine Bone for Preparation of Porous Collagen Sponges

    • Ana B. Castro-Ceseña, Ekaterina E. Novitskaya, Ameya Phadke, Shyni Varghese, Joanna McKittrick
    Pages 73-78

  13. An Immersed Finite Element Method Approach for Brain Biomechanics

    • Saswati Roy, Luca Heltai, Corina Drapaca, Francesco Costanzo
    Pages 79-86

  14. Brain Mechanical Imaging (BMI)

    • Shadi F. Othman, Thomas Boulet, Huihui Xu, Matthew L. Kelso
    Pages 87-92

  15. Characterization of Murine Glioma by Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Preliminary Results

    • Erik H. Clayton, John A. Engelbach, Joel R. Garbow, Philip V. Bayly
    Pages 93-98

  16. Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Moduli of Cortical and Trabecular Bone

    • Ekaterina Novitskaya, Elham Hamed, Jun Li, Iwona Jasiuk, Joanna McKittrick
    Pages 99-107

  17. Quasi-static Compressive and Tensile Tests on Cancellous Bone in Human Cervical Spine

    • J. F. Liu, V. P. W. Shim, P. V. S. Lee
    Pages 109-118

  18. Utilizing Digital Image Correlation to Capture Strains in Dental Applications

    • Bradley W. LaCroix, Peter G. Ifju, Karl J. Soderholm, Saulo Geraldeli
    Pages 119-126

  19. Untangling a Sticky Problem: The Tensile Properties of Natural Silks

    • Christopher Viney
    Pages 127-134

  20. Biomimetic Tapered Fibers for Enhanced Composite Toughness

    • Deju Zhu, Heide Humburg, Francois Barthelat
    Pages 135-140
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About this book

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012.  The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes in Conventional and Multifunctional Materials, Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging Applications, Experimental and Applied Mechanics, MEMS and Nanotechnology and, Composite Materials and Joining Technologies for Composites.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Auburn University, Auburn, USA

    Barton C. Prorok, Elizabeth Lipke

  • McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    François Barthelat

  • State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

    Chad S. Korach

  • Rice University, Houston, USA

    K. Jane Grande-Allen

  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    George Lykofatitits

  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Pablo Zavattieri

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

  • Editors: Barton C. Prorok, François Barthelat, Chad S. Korach, K. Jane Grande-Allen, Elizabeth Lipke, George Lykofatitits, Pablo Zavattieri

  • Series Title: Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4427-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc. 2013 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4426-8Published: 27 September 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4579-5Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4427-5Published: 26 September 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5644

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5652

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 222

  • Topics: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

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