Stéphane Avril
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Mines Saint-Étienne Website |
Keywords: Parameter identification using full-field optical measurements; virtual fields method in hyperelasticity; mechanics of collagen and elastin networks; non-local damage and healing of soft tissues; mechanics of vascular smooth muscle cells; mechanobiology of thoracic aortic aneurysms |
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
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Graz University of Technology Website |
Keywords: The main aspects of mechanical/structural modeling of soft tissues; modeling non-symmetric collagen fiber dispersion; discrete fiber dispersion method including fiber recruitment and damage; aortic dissection – modeling and simulation; mechanics and pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms |
Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim
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National University of Singapore Website |
Keywords: Mechanical models of living cells; experimental techniques in cell and molecular biomechanics; cell mechanics study of malaria; cell mechanics study of cancer; cell mechanics-based microfluidics for disease diagnosis and precision therapy |
Andrew D. McCulloch
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University of California San Diego Website |
Keywords: Multi-scale biomechanics and systems mechanobiology of the heart and cardiac cells: molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics models; Markov state models of contractile protein interactions; whole cell biophysical models excitation-contraction coupling; systems models of cell mechanosignaling; continuum models of cardiac growth and remodeling; statistical shape atlases for clinical applications |
Ray W. Ogden
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University of Glasgow Website |
Keywords: Essential ingredients of continuum mechanics and nonlinear elasticity; constitutive modeling of fiber-reinforced materials, fiber dispersion and cross-linking; the danger of modeling errors; residual stresses and their influence on the elastic response of arteries |
Wolfgang A. Wall
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Technical University of Munich Website |
Keywords: Fluid-structure interaction in Biomechanics – introduction to essential modeling (resolved, homogenized, mixed-dimensional) and computational approaches; uncertainty quantification (UQ) for complex problems in biomechanics; computational modeling of the respiratory system |