Articles
Modeling the collagen fibril network of biological tissues as a nonlinearly elastic material using a continuous volume fraction distribution function (with Reza Shirazi, Pasquale Vena, and Robert L. Sah), Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (2011)
Despite distinct mechanical functions, biological soft tissues have a common microstructure in which a ground...
Contribution of Proteoglycan Osmotic Swelling Pressure to the Compressive Properties of Articular Cartilage (with EunHee Han, Silvia S. Chen, and Robert L. Sah), Biophysical Journal (2011)
The negatively charged proteoglycans (PG) provide compressive resistance to articular cartilage by means of their...
Differential Regulation of Immature Articular Cartilage Compressive Moduli and Poisson's Ratios by in Vitro Stimulation with IGF-1 and TGF-β1 (with Gregory M. Williams, Kristin J. Dills, Christian R. Flores, Michael E. Stender, Kevin M. Stewart, Lauren M. Nelson, Albert C. Chen, Koichi Masuda, Scott J. Hazelwood, and Robert L. Sah), Journal of Biomechanics (2010)
Mechanisms of articular cartilage growth and maturation have been elucidated by studying composition-function dynamics during...
Differential Regulation of Immature Articular Cartilage Compressive Moduli and Poisson’s Ratios by in vitro Stimulation With IGF-1 and TGF-β1 (with Gregory M. Williams, Kristin J. Dills, Christian R. Flores, Michael E. Stender, Kevin M. Stewart, Lauren M. Nelson, Albert C. Chen, Koichi Masuda, Scott J. Hazelwood, and Robert L. Sah), Journal of Biomechanics (2010)
Mechanisms of articular cartilage growth and maturation have been elucidated by studying composition-function dynamics during...
A Nonlinear Constituent Based Viscoelastic Model for Articular Cartilage and Analysis of Tissue Remodeling Due to Altered Glycosaminoglycan-Collagen Interactions (with Gregory C. Thomas, Anna Asanbaeva, Pasquale Vena, and Robert L. Sah), Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (2009)
A constituent based nonlinear viscoelastic (VE) model was modified from a previous study (Vena, et...
Conference Proceedings
A Growth Mixture Theory for Cartilage (with Robert L. Sah and Anne Hoger), Mechanics in Biology: Proceedings of the 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition: Orlando, FL (2000)
In this paper we present a model of growth for cartilaginous tissues in which there...