Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Conference Proceedings ... Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)

Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials , Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics , the sixth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including: Soft Material Mechanics Bio-Engineering and Biomechanics Cells Mechanics Biomaterials and Mechanics Across Multiple Scales Biomechanics Biotechnologies Traumatic Brain Injury Mechanics Front Matter....Pages i-viii Mechanic Adaptability of Metastatic Cells in Colon Cancer....Pages 1-9 Nano-Mechanical Response of Red Blood Cells....Pages 11-16 Scale Dependence of the Mechanical Properties of Interfaces in Crustaceans Thin Films....Pages 17-23 Dynamic Analysis of Human Knee....Pages 25-31 Viscohyperelastic Calibration in Mechanical Characterization of Soft Matter....Pages 33-37 Contact Zone Evaluation of Dental Implants Using Digital Photoelasticity....Pages 39-43 Evolution of the Skin Microstructural Organization During a Mechanical Assay....Pages 45-52 A Numerical Study of a Biaxial Sollicitation to Set-Up the Displacement Field Measurement of Ex Vivo Mouse Skin....Pages 53-60 Dynamic Polarization Microscopy for In-Situ Measurements of Collagen Fiber Realignment During Impact....Pages 61-66 Self-Shifting Neutral Axis and Negative Poisson’s Ratio in Hierarchical Structured Natural Composites: Bamboo....Pages 67-73 High-Speed Holography for In-Vivo Measurement of Acoustically Induced Motions of Mammalian Tympanic Membrane....Pages 75-81 Rheology of Soft and Rigid Micro Particles in Curved Microfluidic Channels....Pages 83-87 Microfluidic Approaches for Biomechanics of Red Blood Cells....Pages 89-93 Custom Indentation System for Mechanical Characterization of Soft Matter....Pages 95-99 Experimental Evaluation of Blast Loadings on the Ear and Head with and Without Hearing Protection Devices....Pages 101-109 A Mechano-Hydraulic Model of Intracranial Pressure Dynamics....Pages 111-118 Regional Variations in the Mechanical Strains of the Human Optic Nerve Head....Pages 119-127 Experimental Electromechanics of Red Blood Cells Using Dielectrophoresis-Based Microfluidics....Pages 129-134 Microbuckling of Fibrous Matrices Enables Long Range Cell Mechanosensing....Pages 135-141 The Growth and Mechanical Properties of Abalone Nacre Mesolayer....Pages 143-148 Evaluation of Precise Optimal Cyclic Strain for Tenogenic Differentiation of MSCs....Pages 149-155 Effect of Fiber Architecture on the Cell Functions of Electrospun Fiber Membranes....Pages 157-160 Controlling hESC-CM Cell Morphology on Patterned Substrates Over a Range of Stiffness....Pages 161-168 Cytoskeletal Perturbing Drugs and Their Effect on Cell Elasticity....Pages 169-177