Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Conference Proceedings ... Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)

__Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics__ represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012. The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes in Conventional and Multifunctional Materials, Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging Applications, Experimental and Applied Mechanics, MEMS and Nanotechnology and, Composite Materials and Joining Technologies for Composites. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Effect of Crystallite Orientation on Nanomechanical Properties of a Nanostructured Poly(KAMPS)/Aragonite Composite....Pages 1-6 Characterization of the Mechanical Behavior of Sunflower Stem for Bio-composite Applications....Pages 7-13 Long-Range Mechanical Force Enables Self-Assembly of Epithelial Tubules....Pages 15-21 Effects of Membrane Composition and Cytoskeletal Proteins on Membrane Mechanics....Pages 23-29 Interfacial Fracture Toughness of Nacre....Pages 31-38 New Insight into the Toughening Mechanisms of Nacre....Pages 39-44 Thermal Analyses of Dental Ceramic Restorations....Pages 45-50 Visualization of Micro-cracks in Compact Bovine Bone....Pages 51-55 Humanlike Robots: Synthetically Mimicking Humans....Pages 57-61 Porous Hydroxyapatite-Polyhydroxybutyrate Composites Fabricated by a Novel Method Via Centrifugation....Pages 63-71 Isolation of Collagen from Cortical Bovine Bone for Preparation of Porous Collagen Sponges....Pages 73-78 An Immersed Finite Element Method Approach for Brain Biomechanics....Pages 79-86 Brain Mechanical Imaging (BMI)....Pages 87-92 Characterization of Murine Glioma by Magnetic Resonance Elastography: Preliminary Results....Pages 93-98 Correlation of Multi-scale Modeling and Experimental Results for the Elastic Moduli of Cortical and Trabecular Bone....Pages 99-107 Quasi-static Compressive and Tensile Tests on Cancellous Bone in Human Cervical Spine....Pages 109-118 Utilizing Digital Image Correlation to Capture Strains in Dental Applications....Pages 119-126 Untangling a Sticky Problem: The Tensile Properties of Natural Silks....Pages 127-134 Biomimetic Tapered Fibers for Enhanced Composite Toughness....Pages 135-140 Improved Instrumented Indentation of Soft Materials through Surface Deformation Measurements....Pages 141-147 The Surface Tribological and Mechanical Behaviors of Silicone-Based Hydrogel Materials....Pages 149-153 Assessment of Corneal Deformation Using Optical Coherence Tomography and Digital Volume Correlation....Pages 155-160 The Effects of Noise and Spatial Sampling on Identification of Material Parameters by Magnetic Resonance Elastography....Pages 161-168 Tracking Cortical Surface Deformation Using Stereovision....Pages 169-176 Effect of Stress Relief Process on Mechanical Performance of MP35N Cable as Lead Conductor in Medical Device....Pages 177-182 The Time Dependent Mechanical Properties of Bovine Enamel....Pages 183-187 Mechanical Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate (PEGDA) for Tissue Engineering Applications....Pages 189-195 Developing a Microloading Platform for Applications in Mechanotransduction Research....Pages 197-205 Direct Measurements of the Cohesive Behavior of Soft Biological Interfaces....Pages 207-215 Experiments on Hydrogels of Varying Shape....Pages 217-222 Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together 31 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Experimental and Applied Mechanics, including papers on: Biological Materials & Mechanics Cell Mechanics Mechanics of Biomimetic Materials Mechanics of Brain Tissues and Structures Mechanics of Bone and Related Materials Multi-Scale Mechanics of Natural Fibers Indentation Methods in Soft Materials Imaging Methods in Biological Systems and Materials Mechanics of Tissue Damage Mechanics of Soft Materials and Tissues