Abstract: It is now established that computational tools are indispensable to augment experimental techniques for the analysis of complex structures under dynamic loading. Many new computational techniques ...

Abstract: Cells communicate with their external environment via focal adhesions and generate activation signals that in turn trigger the activity of the intracellular contractile machinery. These signals ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations that incorporate a biochemomechanical model for the contractility of the cytoskeleton have been used to rationalize the following observations. Uniaxial cyclic stretching of ...