Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 4 Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Study of the Transient Response of Tympanic Membranes Under Acoustic Excitation 2 Directional Failure of Tendons in the Presence of a Notch Defect 3 Age and Regional Dependence of Collagen Crimp in Heart Valves 4 The Cohesive Law and Toughness of Engineering and Natural Adhesives 5 Comparing the Passive Biomechanics of Tension-Pressure Loading of Porcine Renal Artery and Its First Branch 6 Indentation Measurements on Soft Materials Using Optical Surface Deformation Measurements 7 Cadaveric Femoral Fractures in a Fall on the Hip Configuration 8 Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Modulus of Trabecular Bone 9 Analysis of Stress Distribution Caused by Orthodontic Correctional Devices 10 Hierarchical Bionanomaterials Under the Hammer: High-Rate Response of Silks 11 A Novel Dental Restorative Composite Fabricated with Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Filler 12 The Effect of Dilution in Natural and Bio-inspired Staggered Composites 13 New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre 14 Heterogeneity in Microscopic Residual Stress in the Aortic Wall 15 Measuring and Modeling Morphogenetic Stress in Developing Embryos 16 Residual Stress and Structural Anisotropy of Cortical Bone 17 Microcracking Morphology and Structure Optimization of Compact Bovine Bone Under Impact Loading 18 Biomechanical Response of Blast Loading to the Head Using 2D-3D Cineradiographic Registration 19 Dynamic Analysis of a Spread Cell Using Finite Element Method 20 Imaging Targets to Identify Chromosomal Abnormalities in Cells 21 3D Neutrophil Tractions in Changing Microenvironments 22 Correlations Between Quantitative MR Imaging Properties and Viscoelastic Material Properties of Agarose Gel 23 Electrostatic Actuation Based Modulation of Interaction Between Protein and DNA Aptamer 24 The Relation Between Crispness and Texture Properties of Wax Apple 25 Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Jute Fiber/Epoxy Laminar Composites 26 A Fractional Pressure-Volume Model of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics in Hydrocephalus 27 Site-Specific Diagnostic Evaluation of Hard Biological Tissues Using Solitary Waves.

Biography

François Barthelat, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Pablo Zavattieri, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. Chad S. Korach, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. Barton C. Prorok, Auburn University, Auburn, USA. K. Jane Grande-Allen, Rice University, Houston, USA.