Conference Agenda

2:00pm - 2:40pm

Experimental micro- and nanomechanics of collagen rich-tissues and individual collagen fibrils

P. J. Thurner¹, O. G. Andriotis¹, S. Desissaire¹, M. G. Jones², D. E. Davies²

¹TU Wien, Austria; ²University of Southampton, UK

2:40pm - 3:00pm

Continuous versus discrete modeling of fiber dispersion in fibrous soft tissues

G. A. Holzapfel^1,2, K. Li¹, R. W. Ogden³, S. Sherifova¹, G. Sommer¹

¹Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway; ³University of Glasgow, UK

3:00pm - 3:20pm

A microstructural model of crosslink interaction between collagen fibrils in the human cornea

M. Vasta¹, A. Gizzi², A. Pandolfi³

¹University of Chieti Pescara, Italy; ²Campus Biomedico, Rome, Italy; ³Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

3:20pm - 3:40pm

Key factors for soft tissue tensional homeostasis identified by discrete fiber network modeling and biaxial experiments

J. F. Eichinger^1,3, D. Paukner², R. C. Aydin⁴, J. D. Humphrey², C. J. Cyron^3,4

¹Technical University of Munich, Germany; ²Yale University, USA; ³Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; ⁴Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

3:40pm - 4:00pm

DNA beams: molecular-to-beam upscaling - theoretical foundations and application to DNA

J. Kalliauer, S. Scheiner, G. Kahl, C. Hellmich

TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology, Austria