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Tuesday, July 1st 14:00 - 16:00
Computational Mechanics of Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials and Structures I
Minisymposium organized by Christian Hellmich and Dinesh Katti

Room: CIN0.1
MS202A

14:00 Mechanics at the Molecular Scale in Bone
Kalpana S. Katti and Dinesh R. Katti

14:20 Comparison of Voxel-Based Micro Fe and Different Surface-Based Homogenized Fe Models of Human Vertebral Bodies
Dieter Pahr and Philippe Zysset

14:40 Pressure Response Analysis in Head Injury
Philippe Young and Emma A.C. Johnson

15:00 Multi-Scale Mechanics of Traumatic Brain Injury
Rudy Cloots, Hans van Dommelen and Marc Geers

15:20 Towards an Advanced Poroviscoelastic Model at Large Strains for the Simulation of Collagen Induced Anisotropy of Articular Cartilage
Uwe-Jens Görke, Hubert Günther, Christoph Forkmann and Markus Wimmer

15:40 Pulling Rate Dependeance of the Nanomechanics of Single Tropocollagen Molecules
Alfonso Gautieri, Markus Buehler and Alberto Redaelli

Tuesday, July 1st 16:30 - 18:30
Computational Mechanics of Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials and Structures II
Minisymposium organized by Christian Hellmich and Dinesh Katti

Room: CIN0.1
MS202B

16:30 Upscaling Anisotropic Stiffness and Strength Properties of Wood (Keynote Lecture)
Karin Hofstetter, Christian Hellmich and Josef Eberhardsteiner

17:00 Multiscale Mechanics of NACRE: From Molecular to Macro (Keynote Lecture)
Dinesh R. Katti and Kalpana S. Katti

17:30 Fracture of Structured Materials
Ko Okumura

17:50 Mechanical Properties of Cellular Structures formed by the Voronoi-Partition of Randomly Disturbed Cubic Lattices
Rafael Schouwenaars, Humberto Cervantes, Elliot I. Bustillos, Víctor H. Jacobo and Armando Ortiz

18:10 Numerical Modeling of Stress Concentrations in Micro-Heterogeneous Bio-Tissue
Jonathan F. Wenk, Panayiotis Papadopoulos and Tarek Zohdi

Wednesday, July 2nd 10:30 - 12:30
Computational Mechanics of Biological and Bio-Inspired Materials and Structures III
Minisymposium organized by Christian Hellmich and Dinesh Katti

Room: CIN0.1
MS202C

10:30 A Numerical Stability Analysis of Chemo-mechanical Formulations of Biological Growth
Harish Narayanan and Krishna Garikipati

10:50 A Finite Element Model for Wound Healing
Fred Vermolen and Etelvina Javierre

11:10 A Computational Model for Studying Coupled Processes in Wound Healing for Arbitrary Wound Geometries
Etelvina Javierre, Fred Vermolen, Kees Vuik and Sybrand van der Zwaag

11:30 Computer Modelling of Biosensor with Product Inhibition
Evelina Gaidamauskaitė and Romas Baronas

11:50 Numerical Modeling of Resin Flow through a Demineralized Dentin Collagen Network
Elsa Vennat, Denis Aubry, Jean-Marie Fleureau and Michel Degrange

12:10 Numerical Simulation of Mechanotransduction in Drosophila Embryos including Mesoderm Large Strain
Rachele Allena, Denis Aubry and Anne-Sophie Mouronval

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