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View SchemaMaterial forces in the context of biotissue remodelling
| Authors | K. Garikipati, H. Narayanan, E. M. Arruda, K. Grosh, S. Calve |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0312002 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312002 |
Abstract
Remodelling of biological tissue, due to changes in microstructure, is treated in the continuum mechanical setting. Microstructural change is expressed as an evolution of the reference configuration. This evolution is expressed as a point-to-point map from the reference configuration to a remodelled configuration. A ``preferred'' change in configuration is considered in the form of a globally incompatible tangent map. This field could be experimentally determined, or specified from other insight. Issues of global compatibility and evolution equations for the resulting configurations are addressed. It is hypothesized that the tissue reaches local equilibrium with respect to changes in microstructure. A governing differential equation and boundary conditions are obtained for the microstructural changes by posing the problem in a variational setting. The Eshelby stress tensor, a separate configurational stress, and thermodynamic driving (material) forces arise in this formulation, which is recognized as describing a process of self-assembly. An example is presented to illustrate the theoretical framework.
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"abstract": "Remodelling of biological tissue, due to changes in microstructure, is\ntreated in the continuum mechanical setting. Microstructural change is\nexpressed as an evolution of the reference configuration. This evolution is\nexpressed as a point-to-point map from the reference configuration to a\nremodelled configuration. A ``preferred\u0027\u0027 change in configuration is considered\nin the form of a globally incompatible tangent map. This field could be\nexperimentally determined, or specified from other insight. Issues of global\ncompatibility and evolution equations for the resulting configurations are\naddressed. It is hypothesized that the tissue reaches local equilibrium with\nrespect to changes in microstructure. A governing differential equation and\nboundary conditions are obtained for the microstructural changes by posing the\nproblem in a variational setting. The Eshelby stress tensor, a separate\nconfigurational stress, and thermodynamic driving (material) forces arise in\nthis formulation, which is recognized as describing a process of self-assembly.\nAn example is presented to illustrate the theoretical framework.",
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"title": "Material forces in the context of biotissue remodelling",
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