Abstract: An important and increasingly popular feature at each of the Summer Bioengineering Conferences is the student paper competition. Students from undergraduate to graduate levels submit their work ...

Abstract: Over its first twenty-five years, the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering has taken its place among the most respected journals in the field of biomechanics. Much of this success has ...

Abstract: Detailed measurements of cell material properties are required for understanding how cells respond to their mechanical environment. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an increasingly popular measurement ...

Abstract: Recent results demonstrate the exquisite sensitivity of cell orientation responses to the pattern of imposed deformation. Cells undergoing pure in-plane uniaxial stretching orient differently than ...

Abstract: The objective of the present study was to perform biaxial testing and apply constitutive modeling to develop a strain energy function that accurately predicts the material behavior of the aortic ...

Abstract: Endothelial cells in vivo are normally subjected to multiple mechanical stimuli such as stretch and fluid shear stress (FSS) but because each stimulus induces magnitude-dependent morphologic ...

Abstract: Biaxial testing, histological measurements and theoretical continuum mechanics modeling were employed to investigate the structure and mechanical properties of the mitral valve leaflet-strut chordae ...