7th Summer School on Biomechanics of Soft Tissues: Multiscale Modeling, Simulation and Applications
Graz University of Technology, Austria
July 4 - 8, 2016
coordinated by:
Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Ray W. Ogden, University of Glasgow, UK
PhD project 2 (Reference: NGCM-0080)
Design and optimisation of bio-inspired programmable surfaces with active materials
Biotribology Group, nCATS
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Background
PhD project 1 (Reference: NGCM-0011)
Generalised asymptotic numerical methods for buckling instability problems in biological systems and bio-inspired morphing structures
Biotribology Group, nCATS
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Background
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DECATHLON is a French company which designs and sells sports goods. With about 900 shops all around the world, DECATHLON has more than 60000 employees, all passionate about sports, and generates a 7 billion euros turnover.
The capability to sense and respond to external mechanical stimuli at various timescales is essential to many physiological aspects in plants, including selfprotection, intake of nutrients and reproduction. Remarkably, some plants have evolved the ability to react to mechanical stimuli within a few seconds despite a lack of muscles and nerves. The fast movements of plants in response to mechanical stimuli have long captured the curiosity of scientists and engineers, but the mechanisms behind these rapid thigmonastic movements are still not understood completely.
After several years of research in the area of additive manufacturing, biofabrication, and additively manufactured biomaterials and implants, I finally put up the first version of the website of my lab. I will gradually improve the website, but there is already links to all publications coming out of my lab in the general area of AM.
Diabetic foot represents a complication of diabetes that can lead to foot ulcers and other serious conditions. 3D Finite Element (FE) analysis enables dynamic characterisation of different loads within the foot.
This study developed a subject-specific 3D FE model of a diabetic neuropathic and a healthy subject’s foot from MRI data. Experimental analysis of the biomechanics of the foot was combined with FE simulations of foot models generated in Simpleware software.
