Materiomics: Multiscale Mechanics of Biological Materials and Structures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Buehler, Markus J. (Editor), Ballarini, Roberto. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 546
• Subjects: Mechanics, applied.; Biomaterials.; Materials Science.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1574-9

Multiscale mechanics of hierarchical materials plays a crucial role in understanding and engineering biological and bioinspired materials and systems. The mechanical science of hierarchical tissues and cells in biological systems has recently emerged as an exciting area of research and provides enor...

Table of Contents:

• Multiscale modeling of biomaterials and tissues
• The mechanics of individual collagen fibrils: experiments using MEMS platforms, multiscale modeling and theory
• Multiscale simulations of collagen fibril mechanics
• Optical tweezers
• Experiment of human physiology and disease
• Advances in experimental cell biology and cell-material interactions.