The low Young's modulus of biological particles results in their large deformation against the AFM probe forces; therefore, it is necessary to study the contact mechanics of bioparticles in order to predict their mechanical behaviors. This paper specifically deals with the contact mechanics of DNA nanoparticles with spherical and cylindrical shapes during manipulation. In previous studies, ...

In order to better understand the in vivo rheologic behavior of white cells, we have studied the time-dependent deformability, recovery, and mechanical activation of blood granulocytes. We have used micropipette aspiration methods to measure the large deformation response and recovery after deformation characteristics of neutrophils as functions of time, temperature, and collecting media. The c...

This paper presents a method for effectively modeling the outer surfaces of inlay/onlay prostheses restoring teeth that are partially destroyed. We exploit 3D mesh deformation techniques: direct manipulation free-form deformation (DMFFD) [9] and multiple wires deformation (MWD) [10] with three kinds of information: standard teeth models, scanned mesh data from the plaster cast of a patient's to...

Abstract-By using Lee’s (1969. 1. Appf. hfech. 36, l-6) multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into its elastic and plastic part of Hill and Rice’s (1973. SlAbf J. Appf. Math. U, 44S-461) constitutive framework. explicit and consistent constitutive analysis of large clastoplastic deformation is given. Both isotropic and anisotropic material behaviour is considered. so that som...

In the finite element analysis that deals with large deformation, the process usually produces distorted elements at the later stages of the analysis. These distorted elements lead to analysis problems, such as inaccurate solutions, slow convergence and premature termination of the analysis. This paper proposes a new mesh generation algorithm to mesh the input part for pure Lagrangian analysis,...