Dear Colleagues and friends,
you are kindly invited to participate to the next European Congress
on Advanced Materials and Process:
EUROMAT2011 ( http://euromat2011.fems.eu/)
to be held in Montpellier, France, September 12-15, 2011.
In particular, you might be interested in submitting your abstract
to the symposium
F14: "Mechanical characterization and modeling of tissues and
biomedical materials at all length scales"
http://euromat2011.fems.eu/programme/topics-symposia/introductions/f14
that we are co-organizing together with Christian Hellmich
(Technical University of Vienna).
We prompt people working in the biomedical engineering area
to convey to this EUROMAT meeting on advanced materials
with the purpose to merge these two research fields which actually
rest on common approaches.
In particular those of you who are active in the mechanical
characterization and modeling of tissues and biomaterials are
encouraged to submit their work.
| No. | Symposium | Organiser | Co-Organiser |
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F14 |
Mechanical characterization and modeling of tissues and biomedical materials at all length scales |
Prof. Christian Hellmich, TU Vienna (AT)enrica.verne [at] polito.it ( ) christian.hellmich [at] tuwien.ac.at (christian[dot]hellmich[at]tuwien[dot]ac[dot]at) | Prof Lorenza Petrini, lpetrini [at] stru.polimi.it (lpetrini[at]stru[dot]polimi[dot]it) Prof. Pasquale Vena, vena [at] stru.polimi.it (vena[at]stru[dot]polimi[dot]it) Polytechnic of Milano (I)
vena [at] stru.polimi.it ( |
| This symposium will cover the fruitful interplay of experiments, theory, and computations across different length scales, when it comes to deciphering the origins of the intriguing mechanical behavior of hierarchically organized biological materials. The latter will include (but not be restricted to) bone, cartilage, tendon, blood vessels, nacre, and wood. The focus will be on identification of typical organizational patterns, as well as of the properties of elementary tissue components and their interfaces. Use of any modern theoretical, computational, or experimental tool facilitating this identification is welcome, such as continuum mechanics, continuum micromechanics, homogenization theory, Finite Element methods, molecular and atomistic simulations, atomic force microscopy, nanoindentation, ultrasonics, computer tomography, just to name a few. Quantitatively understanding biological materials will finally ease the way to better biomedical devices as well as to bio-mimetic solutions in various technological fields. Contributions concerning multiscale mechanics of such materials are equally well welcome in the symposium. |
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If you would prefer a poster presentation please indicate this on
the abstract. The abstracts will be evaluated and, if accepted, the
authors will be informed about the kind of presentation (oral or
poster).
Please note the most important date:
Deadline for abstract submission: January, 31st 2011
Best regards
Pasquale Vena