Overview
- State of current understanding, and the viewpoints of biologists, biophysicists and mechanicians
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: IUTAM Bookseries (IUTAMBOOK, volume 16)
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Table of contents (23 papers)
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Tissue Mechanics
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Cell-substrate Interactions
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Mechanics of DNA
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Mechanics of Biopolymer Networks
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Cell adhesion
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About this book
These are the proceedings of an IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics, held in the summer of 2008 at Woods Hole, Mass, USA. This groundbreaking meeting brought together mechanicians having an interest in biological systems, with biophysicists and biologists in order to address the mechanical basis of biology at the molecular, cellular and tissue scales.
The meeting explored a wealth of phenomena in cell and molecular biology all of which display a breadth of mechanical influences that may seem surprising at first glance to the traditional mechanician. This arena for the application of methods developed in mechanics has not drawn as much attention as more traditional tissue biomechanics. However, biophysicists, and even biologists apply ideas of elasticity and structural mechanics quite widely in studying molecules and cells. Many critical functions of biomolecules and cells are fundamentally mechanical in origin, and the mechanics of many biomolecules demonstrate scaling laws that are non-classical to traditional structural mechanics and elasticity.
This compilation of the scientific papers presented at the meeting will prove invaluable to researchers in the mechanics of biology as this field develops in the decades to come and takes its place as an acknowledged and central area in biology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the IUTAM symposium held at Woods Hole, Mass., USA, June 18-21, 2008
Editors: Krishna Garikipati, Ellen M. Arruda
Series Title: IUTAM Bookseries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3348-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3347-5Published: 16 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3113-4Published: 01 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3348-2Published: 01 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1875-3507
Series E-ISSN: 1875-3493
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 285
Topics: Biomaterials, Cell Biology, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Classical Mechanics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics