Soft materials often exhibit a distinctive power-law viscoelastic response arising from broad
distribution of time-scales present in their complex internal structure. A promising tool to …

The quality of life of ageing populations is increasingly determined by age-related changes
to the mechanical properties of numerous biological tissues. Degradation and mechanical …

Abstract Comprising~ 20% of the volume, water is a key determinant of the mechanical
behavior of cortical bone. It essentially exists in two general compartments: within pores and …

A comparison study of the efficiency and accuracy of a variety of meshless trial and test
functions is presented in this paper, based on the general concept of the meshless local …

Nanoindentation has emerged as an important method for the evaluation of the mechanical
response of small material volumes and thin films to applied loading. Here, we present a …

Elastic-viscoelastic correspondence was used to generate displacement–time solutions for
spherical indentation testing of soft biological materials with time-dependent mechanical …

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of microstructure and porosity on the
mechanical behaviour of sintered hydroxyapatite. Hydroxyapatite disks with four different …

Recent advancements in MRI have enabled clinical imaging of human cortical bone,
providing a potentially powerful new means for assessing bone health with molecular‐scale …

Handbook of Nanophysics: Functional Nanomaterials illustrates the importance of tailoring
nanomaterials to achieve desired functions in applications. Each peer-reviewed chapter …

Nanoindentation techniques have recently been adapted for the study of biological
materials. This feature will consider the experimental adaptations required for such studies …