Deformation and Rheology

Simulation of neutrophil motion and deformation: influence of rheology and flow configuration

Scaling relations of earthquakes and aseismic deformation in a damage rheology model

S U M M A R Y We perform analytical and numerical studies of scaling relations of earthquakes and partition of elastic strain energy between seismic and aseismic components using a thermodynamically based continuum damage model. Brittle instabilities occur in the model at critical damage level associated with loss of convexity of the strain energy function. A new procedure is developed for calc...

Power-law rheology of isolated nuclei with deformation mapping of nuclear substructures.

Force-induced changes in genome expression as well as remodeling of nuclear architecture in development and disease motivate a deeper understanding of nuclear mechanics. Chromatin and green fluorescent protein-lamin B dynamics were visualized in a micropipette aspiration of isolated nuclei, and both were shown to contribute to viscoelastic properties of the somatic cell nucleus. Reversible swel...

On the calibration of deformation model of rheology object by a modified randomized algorithm

There are many kinds of rheology objects in our living life. If such rheology objects are individually and completely modeled, we can flexibly deal with such various objects in a factory by a robotic manipulator controlling six degrees-of-freedom forces and moments and also operate them at a 3-D graphics world in a house by a human via a wonderful haptic devise feeling the forces and moments. I...

Rheology

researchers write. So, during the dry season, the entire population is represented by developing eggs that incubate for 8–9 months, before hatching synchronously at the beginning of the following rainy season. “Remarkably, this chameleon spends more of its short annual life cycle inside the egg than outside it,” they report. The authors reviewed data on the life cycle of more than 1,700 tetrapo...