Abstract: A comprehensive theory, herein named the Differential Interfacial Tension Hypothesis (DITH), for the self-rearrangement of embryonic cells and tissues is presented. These rearrangements include ...

Abstract: Embryonic cells have the remarkable ability to spontaneously reposition themselves with respect to other cells in an aggregate, an ability that is central to embryo morphogenesis, many disease ...

Abstract: Technical challenges, including significant ones associated with cell rearrangement, have hampered the development of three-dimensional finite element models for the mechanics of embryonic cells. ...

Abstract: The axisymmetric behavior of both shallow, and deep, ring-loaded spherical caps, which are simply supported but otherwise unconstrained at their edges, is investigated using a large-strain shell ...

Abstract: Finite element simulations are used to investigate the mechanical behavior, including the detailed sequence of failure, of single‐and multilayer, fabric‐reinforced membrane systems under in‐plane load. In situ, such ...

Abstract: A new cell-level finite element formulation is presented and used to investigate how epithelia and other planar collections of viscous cells might deform during events such as embryo morphogenesis ...

Abstract: Finite element–based computer simulations are used to investigate a number of phenomena, including tissue engulfment, cell sorting, and checkerboard-pattern formation, exhibited by heterotypic cell ...

Abstract: Sequence-to-sequence transformations are examined as a means to accelerate the convergence of iterative finite-element methods; in particular, the Shanks transform, the scalar epsilon algorithm (SEA), and the vector epsilon ...

Abstract: The design of cold-formed steel (CFS) C-sections that have bearing stiffeners installed between their flanges is a challenging task because complex interactions occur between the stiffener and the C-section when the assembly ...

Abstract: Semi-rigid polyurethane foam specimens were compressed to 25, 50, or 75 percent strain at nominal strain rates of 0.14/s, 1.4/s or 14/s for up to 100 cycles. The loads carried by the fluid ...