Micromechanics in biology and medicine

David B. MacManus, Majid Akbarzadeh Khorshidi, Mazdak Ghajari, Hamid M. Sedighi

IET Nanobiotechnology, 2023

Abstract

Micromechanics is the study of materials at the level of their constituents to describe the interactions of the microstructures and other micro-scale effects. Micromechanical approaches have wide applications in biology and medicine due to the nature of biological tissues and the size of micro-biomedical devices. Micromechanical experiments, continuum micromechanics, and computational multi-scale models of materials with an emphasis on the connections between material properties and mechanical responses at a micron length scale are significantly essential to design and manufacture the mechanical components of micro-biomedical devices and comprehend the behaviour of biological tissues. The micro-scale mechanics of biological tissues is a multidisciplinary and rapidly expanding area of research, which deals with the lower-scale effects on the mechanical behaviour of biological tissues, such as bone, brain, muscle, vasculature, skin, etc. In fact, there are different micro-scale deformations, interactions, and movements within these tissues (e.g. microstructural or bi-phasic properties) affecting the mechanical response of the materials. The micromechanical characteristics of a…

Cite as (BibTeX)

@article{macmanus-2023-micromechanics-in-biology-and,
  title={Micromechanics in biology and medicine},
  author={David B. MacManus and Majid Akbarzadeh Khorshidi and Mazdak Ghajari and Hamid M. Sedighi},
  journal={IET Nanobiotechnology},
  year={2023},
  doi={10.1049/nbt2.12130}
}