Columbia University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
500 West 120th Street, Mail Code 4703
220 S.W. Mudd
New York, NY 10027-6699, USA
E-mail: ateshian@columbia.edu
www.columbia.edu/~ga29
All lectures will be given in English, and lecture notes are provided at the beginning of the Summer School.
Gerard A. Ateshian
Introduction to and applications of mixture theory for tissues and cells; governing eqs for solid-fluid mixtures and solid-solventsolute mixtures; permeation; osmotic loading, Donnan osmotic swelling of charged tissues,
examples from cartilage mechanics.
Mary C. Boyce
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307, USA
E-mail: mcboyce@mit.edu
meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html
Department of Mechanical Engineering
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307, USA
E-mail: mcboyce@mit.edu
meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html
Single molecule and filament mechanics; network-based hyperelastic strain-energy formulations with actin networks as an example; shear-driven viscoelastic and poroelastic effects which get combined with the hyperelastic formulation of the prior lectures.
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
Graz University of Technology
Institute of Biomechanics
Centre of Biomedical Engineering
Kronesgasse 5-I
8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail: holzapfel@tugraz.at
www.biomech.tugraz.at
Institute of Biomechanics
Centre of Biomedical Engineering
Kronesgasse 5-I
8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail: holzapfel@tugraz.at
www.biomech.tugraz.at
Introduction to blood vessels; experiments, constitutive and numerical modeling of soft tissues with applications to arteries and the cornea; balloon angioplasty; modeling of stenting; aneurysms including growth modeling.
