Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials and the Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid & Multifunctional Materials, Vol. 3

Front Cover 1
Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series 2
Mechanics of Biological Systems and Materials and the Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid & Multifunctional Materials, Vol. 3 4
Preface 6
Contents 8
Chapter 1 Review of Recent Results of Onco-Ultrasound-Tripsy on Cancer Cells 10
Introduction 10
Materials and Methods 11
Applications of Onco-Ultrasound-Tripsy (OUT) 11
Application on Lymphoma Cells 11
Application on Breast Cancer Cells 12
Application on Osteosarcoma Cells 13
Application on Melanoma Cells 14
Conclusion 16
Chapter 2 A Bone Remodeling Lab-on-a-Chip to Study Periprosthetic Osteolysis: Early Evidence that Osteocyte Signaling Contributes to Increased Osteoclast Resorption 18
Introduction 18
Background 18
Analysis 20
Results 25
Conclusion 26
Chapter 3 The Stress Relaxation Response of the Porcine Descending Aorta under Combined Normal and Torsional Loadings 28
Introduction 28
Observed mechanical properties of the aorta 29
Stress relaxation and creep in soft tissue 29
Efforts to model aortic tissue 29
Experimental Methods 30
Results 30
Analysis 31
Discussion 33
Implications of Experimental Data 33
Novelty of our experiment 33
Implication on future modeling 33
Questions our data pose 34
Conclusions 35
Future work 35
Chapter 4 Investigating the Interphase in Hydroxyl-TerminatedPolybutadiene (HTPB) Composites via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis and Atomic Force Microscopy 38
Introduction 38
Materials 39
Methods 40
Dynamic mechanical analysis 40
DMA data processing 40
Atomic force microscopy 42
AFM sample preparation 42
Results and Discussion 43
DMA results 43
EMG fitting 44
Activation energy calculations 45
Particle-binder interaction parameter 45
AFM Results 47
Conclusions 54
Chapter 5 Novel Experiment Design to Investigate High-Rate Shear Fracture of Composites 56
Introduction 56
Experimental Design and Methods 57
Experimental Results 57
Conclusion 58
Chapter 6 Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Dynamic Behavior of Cork Material 60
Introduction 60
Materials and Methods 61
Material Modelling 62
Constitutive models 62
Validation 63
Test Case 64
Conclusion 66
Chapter 7 Unexpected Time Dependence in Nanofibrillated Cellulose Gels 68
Introduction 68
Methods 69
Results 70
Conclusions 72
Chapter 8 Biofilm Adhesion on TiAl6V4 using Laser Spallation Technique 74
Introduction 74
Experimental Procedures and Results 75
Challenges 77
Chapter 9 Towards Single Particle Tracking in Simulated Microgravity-Grown Biofilms 78
Introduction 78
SPT in Biofilms 79
SPT Techniques and Validation 80
Accurate Particle Selection 81
Materials and Methods 82
Preliminary Size Characterization Results 82
Back Cover 84

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