Influence of cross-link structure, density and mechanical properties in the mesoscale deformation mechanisms of collagen fibrils

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-13

  Depalle, Baptiste ^a   Qin, Zhao ^a   Shefelbine, Sandra J ^b   Buehler, Markus J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grained model; Collagen; Cross links; Fibril; Fracture; Molecular dynamics; Nanomechanics

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NANOMECHANICS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING;

COARSE GRAINED MODELS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEFORMATION REGIMES; FIBRIL; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MESO-SCALE MODELING;

COLLAGEN;

TROPOCOLLAGEN; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COVALENT BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; YOUNG MODULUS; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; MECHANICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84947047835     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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