Tom Shearer -- Modelling tendon and ligament non-linear elasticity [IN PERSON]
| Dates: | 30 January 2023 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Mathematics |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, External researchers, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Tom Shearer |
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Join us for this seminar by Tom Shearer (Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/
The talk will be hosted in person in the Simon Building, Room 3.62. For those who cannot attend in person the talk will also be streamed via zoom, please contact carl.whitfield@manchester.ac.uk or igor.chernyavsky@manchester.ac.uk for the zoom link, or sign up to the mailing list.
Abstract: Tendons are the connective tissues that attach muscles to bones. Ligaments have a similar function but connect two bones. They both have a complex microstructure consisting of a hierarchical arrangement of collagen fibres embedded in a compliant matrix and can have varied macroscale geometries ranging from cylinders to tapered bands to hourglass shapes. The interplay between their micro- and macro-structure makes it challenging to model their mechanical behaviour. In this seminar, I will present a microscale constitutive model that can be used to predict how the structural arrangement of the collagen fibres impacts tendon and ligament stress-strain behaviour. I will explain how it can be used to infer microscale parameter values from macroscale mechanical data. Then, I will discuss its implementation in a finite element model to investigate the effects of macroscale geometry, highlighting the importance of realistic fibre alignment and how this has been neglected in the literature.
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Speaker
Tom Shearer
Role: Senior Lecturer
Organisation: University of Manchester
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3.62
Simon Building
Manchester
