Biomechanics of Hollow Organs: Experimental Testing and Computational Modeling
A special issue of Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 44635
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanics of biological tissues; computational biomechanics; experimental biomechanics; biomechanics for surgery
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: constitutive analysis of biological tissues; mechanics of biological structures; biomechanics for surgery
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to build a collection of articles that describe the recent advances in the bioengineering investigation of hollow organs’ mechanical functionality, accounting for both experimental and computational approaches.
Hollow organs, such as those found in the gastrointestinal and the lower urinary tracts or in the cardiovascular and the respiratory systems, play fundamental roles in living organisms. Hollow organs show a similar histo-anatomical organization, consisting of an epithelium surrounded by a collagen-rich connective stratum and one or multiple muscular layers. Degenerative phenomena, such as aging, may strongly affect their functionality, compromising the entire organism.
The characterization of hollow organs’ mechanical behaviour plays a crucial role for a comprehensive analysis of their functionality and for the investigation of degenerative phenomena. Experimentations must be developed at both tissue and organ levels, leading to data about histo-morphometry and mechanical responses. Such information will provide the basis for developing and validating computational models. In turn, computational models will allow to broad experimental results to an extremely wider scenario, considering different organs conditions and loading situations. In this sense, mechanical investigations will provide mandatory information for defining effective procedures and devices for both diagnostics and surgery.
To achieve its goal, this Special Issue envisages a strong integration of expertise from different areas, proceeding from biomedical sciences and medicine to bioengineering, computational and experimental biomechanics, bio-mechatronics, and materials science.
Dr. Chiara Giulia Fontanella
Dr. Emanuele Luigi Carniel
Guest Editors
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