Tissue scaffolds provide structural support while facilitating tissue growth, but are challenging to design due to diverse property trade-offs. Here, a computational approach was developed for modeling scaffolds with lattice structures of eight different topologies and assessing properties relevant to bone tissue engineering applications. Evaluated properties include porosity, pore size, surfac...

Rigid-tube computations of simple (transverse) shear in crystalline nanotube ropes (CNTRs) reveal that shear modulus and strength increase and decrease with the tube radius, respectively. High modulus to strength ratios suggest that dislocations play a minor role during their plasticity. The computed shear moduli are in agreement with previous studies, although shape change and rolling-based sh...

An analytic model of the shear modulus applicable at temperatures up to melt and at all densities is presented. It is based in part on a relation between the melting temperature and the shear modulus at melt. Experimental data on argon are shown to agree with this relation to within 1%. The model of the shear modulus involves seven parameters, all of which can be determined from zero-pressure e...

Gas hydrates affect the bulk physical properties of marine sediments, in particular, elastic parameters. Shear modulus is an important parameter for estimating the distribution of hydrates in the marine sediments. However, S-wave information is difficult to recover without proper datasets. Seafloor compliance, the transfer function between pressure induced by surface gravity waves and the assoc...

Cherkaev-Gibiansky and Hashin-Shtrikman variational principles are utilized in order to obtain rigorous bounds on the shear modulus of two-phase viscoelastic composites in three dimensions. The simplest class of bounding regions is composed of circles in the complex plane containing four points related to the viscoelastic moduli of the constituents. By taking the intersection of all such circle...

Introduction: Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) is an MRI-based method for imaging the mechanical properties of tissue [1]. The technique has been shown to be capable of measuring the elasticity of skeletal muscle [2, 3]. The MRE needle driver developed in our laboratory [4] is possible to introduce shear motion directly to adjacent muscle by vibrating the needle. The objective of this stud...

We examine the question of whether fluids and crystals are differentiated on the basis of their zero frequency shear moduli or their limiting zero frequency shear viscosity. We show that while fluids, in contrast with crystals, do have a zero value for their shear modulus, in contradiction to a widespread presumption, a crystal does not have an infinite or exceedingly large value for its limiti...

This study presents an in vitro experimental method to determine shear properties of the epidermis. Shear tests were performed with a parallel plate rheometer on samples of stratum corneum and the viable epidermis. The method was validated on very thin silicon sheets. Preliminary test were performed to determine the linear viscoelastic range, the effect of normal loading on the sample and the t...