Seminar 16th November 2012 2 p.m. 85/2207
Bioengineering Sciences Seminar: Instability and morphology in growing elastic tissues
Professor Alain Goriely
University of Oxford
- Categories
- Bioinformatics, Biomathematics, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Complex Systems, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics, Materials, Nanoscale Assemblies, Structural biology, Systems biology, Tissue Engineering
- Submitter
- Nicholas Evans
Growth is involved in many fundamental biological processes such as morphogenesis, physiological regulation, or pathological disorders.In this talk, I will consider the modeling of elastic growth in elastic materials and investigate its mechanical consequences. We will see that growth affects the geometry of a body by changing typical length scales but also its mechanics by inducing residual stresses. The competition between these two effects can be used to regulate the physical properties of a material during regular physiological conditions. It can also lead to interesting spontaneous instabilities in growing materials that I will illustrate on a number of physical, biological, and physiological systems.
Alain Goriely, Director of OCCAM Professor of Mathematical Modelling