The influence of disorder on deformations in semiflexible networks

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2132, 2011, Pages 2330-2349

  Blundell, Jamie R ^a   Terentjev, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Filament; Networks; Non affine; Semiflexible; Stiff

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETONS; ELASTIC RESPONSE; LOW STRAINS; METROPOLIS MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; NON-AFFINE; NON-AFFINE DEFORMATION; NONLINEAR STRAIN; SEMIFLEXIBLE; SMALL STRAINS; STEP SIZE; STIFF; STIFF POLYMERS; TENSILE FORCES;

STRAIN;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 80051749434     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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