Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5 Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

1 Effect of Crystallite Orientation on Nanomechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite 2 Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Sunflower Stem for Bio-composite Applications 3 Long-Range Mechanical Force Enables Self-Assembly of Epithelial Tubules 4 Effects of Membrane Composition and Cytoskeletal Proteins on Membrane Mechanics 5 Interfacial Fracture Toughness of Nacre 6 New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre 7 Thermal Analyses of Dental Ceramic Restorations 8 Visualization of Micro-cracks in Compact Bovine Bone 9 Humanlike Robots: Synthetically Mimicking Humans 10 Porous Hydroxyapatite-Polyhydroxybutyrate Composites Fabricated by a Novel Method Via Centrifugation 11 Isolation of Collagen from Cortical Bovine Bone for Preparation of Porous Collagen Sponges 12 An Immersed Finite Element Method Approach for Brain Biomechanics 13 Brain Mechanical Imaging (BMI) 14 Characterization of Murine Glioma by Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Preliminary Results 15 Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Moduli of Cortical and Trabecular Bone 16 Quasi-static Compressive and Tensile Tests on Cancellous Bone in Human Cervical Spine 17 Utilizing Digital Image Correlation to Capture Strains in Dental Applications 18 Untangling a Sticky Problem: The Tensile Properties of Natural Silks 19 Biomimetic Tapered Fibers for Enhanced Composite Toughness 20 Improved Instrumented Indentation of Soft Materials through Surface Deformation Measurements 21 The Surface Tribological and Mechanical Behaviors of Silicone-Based Hydrogel Materials 22 Assessment of Corneal Deformation Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation 23 The Effects of Noise and Spatial Sampling on Identification of Material Parameters by Magnetic Resonance Elastography 24 Tracking Cortical Surface Deformation Using Stereovision 25 Effect of Stress Relief Process on Mechanical Performance of MP35N Cable as Lead Conductor in Medical Device 26 The Time Dependent Mechanical Properties of Bovine Enamel 27 Mechanical Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate (PEGDA) for Tissue Engineering Applications 28 Developing a Microloading Platform for Applications in Mechanotransduction Research 29 Direct Measurements of the Cohesive Behavior of Soft Biological Interfaces 30 Experiments on Hydrogels of Varying Shape.

Biography

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