Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 2 Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Analysis and Simulation of PTMA Device Deployment Into the Coronary Sinus: Impact of Stent Strut Thickness 2 Mechanical Identification of Hyperelastic Anisotropic Properties of Mouse Carotid Arteries 3 An Inverse Method to Determine Material Properties of Soft Tissues 4 Estimation of the 3D Residual Strain Field in the Arterial Wall of a Bovine Aorta Using Optical Full-field Measurements and Finite Element Reconstruction 5 Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity in Vivo Using Magnetic Resonance Elastography 6 Comparison of Iterative and Direct Inversion MR Elastography Algorithms 7 Brain Response to Extracranial Pressure Excitation Imaged in vivo by MR Elastography 8 Mechanical Properties of Abnormal Human Aortic and Mitral Valves 9 Bio-prosthetic Heart Valve Stress Analysis: Impacts of Leaflet Properties and Stent Tip Deflection 10 Mechanical Properties of Human Saphenous Vein 11 The Scleral Inflation Response of Mouse Eyes to Increases in Pressure 12 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Dungeness Crab Exoskeletons 13 The Mechanical Properties of Tendril of Climbing Plant 14 A Multiscale Triphasic Biomechanical Model for Tumors Classification 15 Developing Hyper-viscoelastic Constitutive Models of Porcine Meniscus From Unconfined Compression Test Data 16 The Mechanical Performance of Teleost Fish Scales 17 Effects of Processing Conditions on Chitosan-hydroxyapatite Biocomposite Mechanical Properties 18 Mechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly (KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite 19 Nanoscale Fracture Resistance Measurement of a Composite Bone Cement 20 Impact Resistance of Antibiotic-impregnated Orthopedic Bone Cement 21 Use of Nanoindentation for Investigating the Nanostructure of Dentin Tissue 22 Epinephrine Upregulates Sickle Trait Erythrocyte Adhesion to Laminin and Integrins 23 Organ Culture Modeling of Distraction Osteogenesis 24 Mechanical Properties of Tooth Enamel: Microstructural Modeling and Characterization 25 A Novel Biomimetic Material Duplicating the Structure and Mechanics of Natural Nacre 26 Adaptive Hybrid Control for Low Resolution Feedback Systems With Application on a Novel Microinjector: Ros-drill 27 Design of a Mechatronic Positioner for Holographic Otoscope System 28 Characterization of Shape and Deformation of Tympanic Membranes by Dual-wavelength Lensless Digital Holography 29 Investigating Mechanical Properties of Porcine Articular Cartilage by Flat Plate Compression Tests 30 Characterization of Tendon Mechanics Following Subfailure Damage 31 Modeling Sickle Hemoglobin Fibers as one Chain of Coarse-grained Particles

Biography

Dr. Tom Proulx is the Executive Director of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.