Substrate stretching and reorganization of stress fibers as a finite elasticity problem

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 25-26, 2007, Pages 8285-8296

  Lazopoulos, K A ^a   Pirentis, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coexistence of phases; Extracellular stretching; Finite elasticity; Maxwell's stability convention; Reorientation; Stability; Stress fibers

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRETCHING;

COEXISTENCE OF PHASES; EXTRACELLULAR STRETCHING; FINITE ELASTICITY; MAXWELL'S STABILITY CONVENTION; REORIENTATION; STRESS-FIBERS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 35548997825     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2007.06.017     Document Type: Article

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