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By J. D. Humphrey (auth.), Professor Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Professor Ray W. Ogden (eds.)

The mechanics of organic tissues is a multidisciplinary and swiftly increasing sector of study. This ebook highlights a few vital study instructions that mix mechanical sciences with interesting new advancements in biology.

It contains state of the art articles on:

  • Tissue progress and remodelling – basic continuum theories of progress, remodelling and version, with particular purposes to arterial, tendon and cartilage progress and to bone healing.
  • Micromechanics, cells and matrix – measurements of the mechanical houses of cells, engineering of phone platforms, constitutive and computational modelling of cells and cell-substrate interactions, and the transition from microscopic modelling to its macroscopic consequences.
  • Arteries in health and wellbeing and illness – research of residual pressure and its improvement, modelling the constitutive houses of arterial partitions, computational research of the impact of stenting at the arterial wall, experiences of collagen fibre distributions in saccular aneurysms and the interplay among blood stream and aneurysm development.
  • Biological tissues – the musculo-skeletal approach, middle valves, ligaments, intervertebral discs, the uterus and vocal fold tissues, with experimental, modelling and computational perspectives.
  • Image-based research – representation of imaging recommendations that experience nice capability for the research of tissue homes and pathologies and for directing the layout of engineered tissue constructs.

This selection of papers can be of curiosity to theoretical, computational and experimental researchers and doctoral scholars within the region of biomechanics and in similar parts of engineering, biology and medicine.

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A tissue’s physiochemical environment includes the environment it is presently experiencing and the recent history of that environment. A tissue itself is a collection of cells and extracellular matrices that perform specialized functions. The extracellular matrix (ECM) consists of fibers (for example, the proteins collagen and elastin) and a ground substance (for example, proteoglycans). Growth is the process of gradual increase in the net volume of a tissue, but it may also include some resorption.

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