IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue Mechanics

Tissue Mechanics.- Experimental and Computational Investigation of Viscoelasticity of Native and Engineered Ligament and Tendon.- A Comparison of a Nonlinear and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Fibrous Tissues.- Hysteretic Behavior of Ligaments and Tendons: Microstructural Analysis of Damage, Softening and Non-Recoverable Strain.- On Measuring Stress Distributions in Epithelia.- A Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Soft Collageneous Tissues Based on Distributed Fiber–Matrix Units.- Cell-substrate Interactions.- Chemical and Mechanical Micro-Diversity of the Extracellular Matrix.- Tissue-to-Cellular Deformation Coupling in Cell-Microintegrated Elastomeric Scaffolds.- Orientational Polarizability and Stress Response of Biological Cells.- Universal Temporal Response of Fibroblasts Adhering on Cyclically Stretched Substrates.- Mechanics of DNA.- Elastic and Electrostatic Model for DNA in Rotation–Extension Experiments.- Shape and Energetics of DNA Plectonemes.- Mechanics of Biopolymer Networks.- Constitutive Models for the Force-Extension Behavior of Biological Filaments.- Small Strain Topological Effects of Biopolymer Networks with Rigid Cross-Links.- Cell adhesion.- An Observation on Bell’s Model for Molecular Bond Separation Under Force.- A Theoretical Study of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Focal Adhesion Dynamics.- Tension-Induced Growth of Focal Adhesions at Cell–Substrate Interface.- Pattern Formation and Force Generation by Cell Ensembles in a Filamentous Matrix.- Mechano-Chemical Coupling in Shell Adhesion.- Catch-to-Slip Bond Transition in Biological Bonds by Entropic and Energetic Elasticity.- Growth.- Dilation and Hypertrophy: A Cell-Based Continuum Mechanics Approach Towards Ventricular Growth and Remodeling.- A Morpho-Elastic Modelof Hyphal Tip Growth in Filamentous Organisms.- Extracellular Control of Limb Regeneration.- Poroelasticity of Bone.- Bone Composite Mechanics Related to Collagen Hydration State.