Biomechanics of Soft Tissue
Invited Lecturers
- Kozaburo Hayashi (Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan)
- 6 lectures on: Background on the histological and mechanical aspects of biological soft tissues; Mechanical properties of arterial walls and vascular diseases; Mechanical properties and remodeling of tendons and ligaments; Mechanical testing of cells.
- Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Institute for Biomechanics, Graz, Austria)
- 6 lectures on: Continuum theory of the mechanics of fibre-reinforced composites including elasticity, viscoelasticity and plasticity; Finite Element solution of associated boundary value problems (variational principles, stiffness matrices, algorithmic formulations); Applications to arterial wall mechanics, angioplasty (with stenting) and intervertebral discs.
- Jay D. Humphrey (Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843-3120, USA)
- 6 lectures on: Review of cardiovascular physiology/cell biology; Cardiac mechanical properties; Vascular mechanics applied to the speciality area of cerebral aneurysms with an emphasis on mechanics, stability, fluid-solid interactions, FEM stress analysis; Tissue engineering.
- Andrew D. McCulloch (Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA)
- 6 lectures on: Parametric representations of three-dimensional models in biomechanics; Fitting models of cardiac anatomy, structure and deformation; Computational modelling of ventricular mechanics (passive properties, active contraction and pathological cases) and cardiac electrical impulse propagation; Modelling cardiac electromechanical interactions.
- Raymond W. Ogden (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Great Britain)
- 5 lectures on: Nonlinear hyperelasticity; Properties of constitutive laws including convexity, with implications for material stability; Fibre-reinforced materials; The influence of residual stresses on material response, with applications to arterial wall mechanics; Stress softening and pseudo-elasticity in biomaterials.
- Alexander Rachev (Bulgarian Ac. of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)
- 6 lectures on: Experimental and theoretical investigations of growth and remodeling of arteries due to changes in blood pressure and flow; problems of arterial grafting and stenting associated with remodeling (stress-induced thickening at the artery/graft anastomosis; flow-induced intimal hyperplasia; bypass instability; arterial regeneration over bioresorbable grafts).