Abstract: Continuum mechanics is the discipline that studies the motion and deformation of material bodies and is at the basis of both solid mechanics and fluid mechanics. This work aims at highlighting how a basic education in ...

Abstract: Due to the avascular nature of articular cartilage, molecular transport occurs via interstitial fluid flow as well as via diffusion. Diffusion in cartilage has been studied experimentally, but no mathematical models have ...

Abstract: The deformation of articular cartilage and its cells at the micro-scale during dynamic activities such as gait has high mechanoregulatory importance. Measuring the cellular geometries during such dynamics has been limited ...

Abstract: Hydrated soft tissues, such as articular cartilage, are often modeled as biphasic systems with individually incompressible solid and fluid phases, and biphasic models are employed to fit experimental data in order to ...