Deformation micromechanisms of collagen fibrils under uniaxial tension

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 7, Issue 46, 2010, Pages 839-850

  Tang, Yuye ^a   Ballarini, Roberto ^a   Buehler, Markus J ^b   Eppell, Steven J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril; Collagen mechanics; Failure micromechanism; Mesoscopic model; Size effect

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BRITTLE FRACTURE; DEFORMATION; DROP FORMATION; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; YIELD STRESS;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; BUILDING BLOCKES; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN FIBRILS; COLLAGEN MOLECULES; COLLAGENOUS TISSUES; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; CROSS-LINKING DENSITY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FINITE SIZE; FRACTURE STRAIN; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; INTERMEDIATE STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL FAILURES; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MESOSCOPIC MODELS; MICRO MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR DEFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; MOLECULAR MODELLING; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; SIZE DEPENDENCE; STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TRADITIONAL MATERIALS; UNIAXIAL TENSIONS; YIELD STRAIN;

COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; TROPOCOLLAGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CROSS LINKING; DENSITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRESS; TENSION;

EID: 77951670019     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0390     Document Type: Article

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