| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2024 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Mechanics and Physiological Adaptation of Hard and Soft Biomaterials and Biological Tissues
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| Presentation Title |
The Mechanics of Living Organisms: Some Observations |
| Author(s) |
Marc A. Meyers, Haocheng Quan, Tarah Sullivan, Andrey Pissarenko, Benjamin Lazarus, Sheron Tavares, Iwona Jasiuk, Eduard Arzt, Robert McMeeking |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Marc A. Meyers |
| Abstract Scope |
Living organisms are, for the most part, subjected to external tractions or internal stresses acting at the cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system levels. These play an important role in determining their hierarchical components, and influence evolution. Mechanics can reveal and quantify the nature of the relationships between internal and external constraints in one hand, and structural features, on the other. We illustrate some of these relationships for several organic systems studied by our group: pine cones, spines, fish scales, avian bones and feathers, horse hooves, and mammal dermis. Mechanics is a powerful tool to analyze new and yet unexplored relationships. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Biomaterials, Characterization, Mechanical Properties |