Journal of Engineering Mechanics -- May 2009

SPECIAL ISSUE: MECHANICS OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOINSPIRED MATERIAL AND STRUCTURES

Mechanics of Biological and Bioinspired Materials and Structures

Christian Hellmich and Dinesh Katti

pp. 365-366

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Poroviscoelastic Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Solution with Application to Articular Cartilage Testing

Son K. Hoang and Younane N. Abousleiman

pp. 367-374

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Stress Deformation and Fluid Pressure of Bone Specimens under Cyclic Loading

Hoe I. Ling, Emi Ling, and Jui-Pin Wang

pp. 375-381

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Multiporoelasticity of Hierarchically Structured Materials: Micromechanical Foundations and Application to Bone

Christian Hellmich, Dana Celundova, and Franz-Josef Ulm

pp. 382-394

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Multiscale Elasticity of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds with Tissue-Engineered Bone: A Continuum Micromechanics Approach

Emmanuel Bertrand and Christian Hellmich

pp. 395-412

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Mechanisms of Load-Deformation Behavior of Molecular Collagen in Hydroxyapatite-Tropocollagen Molecular System: Steered Molecular Dynamics Study

Rahul Bhowmik, Kalpana S. Katti, and Dinesh R. Katti

pp. 413-421

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Rupture Mechanics of Vimentin Intermediate Filament Tetramers

Markus J. Buehler

pp. 422-433

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Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Lung Tissue at the Microlevel

Lena Wiechert, Robert Metzke, and Wolfgang A. Wall

pp. 434-438

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Integrated Model of IGF-I Mediated Biosynthesis in a Deformed Articular Cartilage

Lihai Zhang, Bruce Stuart Gardiner, David Wamsley Smith, Peter Pivonka, and Alan Jay Grodzinsky

pp. 439-449

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Simplified Finite-Element Model for Tissue Regeneration with Angiogenesis

F. J. Vermolen

pp. 450-460

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Analytical Studies on a Crack in Layered Structures Mimicking Nacre

Yukari Hamamoto and Ko Okumura

pp. 461-467

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Nanomechanics of Surface Modified Nanohydroxyapatite Particulates Used in Biomaterials

Rohit Khanna, Kalpana S. Katti, and Dinesh R. Katti

pp. 468-478

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Biomechanical Inferences about the Origins of Bipedal Locomotion from Ancient African Femora

Adam J. Kuperavage and Robert B. Eckhardt

pp. 479-484

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