Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics [electronic resource] /
Li, Shaofan.editor.
Sun, Bohua.editor.
"Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics" is a compilation and selection of recent works in soft matter mechanics by a group of active researchers in the field. The main objectives of this book are first to disseminate the latest developments in soft matter mechanics in the field of applied and computational mechanics, and second to introduce soft matter mechanics as a sub-discipline of soft matter physics. As an important branch of soft matter physics, soft matter mechanics has developed rapidly in recent years. A number of the novel approaches discussed in this book are unique, such as the coarse grained finite element method for modeling colloidal adhesion, entropic elasticity, meshfree simulations of liquid crystal elastomers, simulations of DNA, etc. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the field of mechanics, condensed matter physics and biomaterials. Dr. Shaofan Li is a professor of the University of California-Berkeley, U.S.A; Dr. Bohua Sun is a professor of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.  .
Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Atomistic to Continuum Modeling of DNA Molecules; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Statistical models for DNAs-polymer elasticity; 1.2.1 The freely jointed chain (FJC) model; 1.2.2 The worm-like chain (WLC) model; 1.2.3 Beyond the entropic regime; 1.2.4 Long-range electrostatic effects; 1.3 Atomistic modeling of DNA molecules; 1.3.1 MD basic theory; 1.3.2 Force fields for nucleic acids; 1.3.3 Limitations and challenges; 1.3.4 MD simulation of DNA stretching; 1.4 Continuum DNA models
1.4.1 Kirchhoff's elastic Rod model for DNAs1.4.2 Finite element (FE) analysis of DNAs; 1.4.3 Director field method for modeling of DNA viral packaging; 1.5 Multiscale homogenization for simulation of DNA molecules; 1.5.1 Basics of multiscale wavelet projection method; 1.5.2 First-level homogenization-wavelet-based coarse-grained DNA model; 1.5.2.1 Mapping full atomistic model to coarse-grained DNA model; 1.5.2.2 Homogenization of potential function from molecular dynamics simulation; 1.5.2.3 Characterization of effective bond stretching potential
1.5.2.4 Characterization of effective bond angle potential1.5.2.5 Characterization of effective non-bonded potential; 1.5.3 Second-level homogenization-hyperelastic beam formulation for DNA; 1.5.4 Applications; 1.5.4.1 Simulations of DNA stretching; 1.5.4.2 Modeling of DNA loop formation; 1.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Appendix: Wavelet and decomposition coefficients for linear spline function; References; Chapter 2 Computational Contact Formulations for Soft Body Adhesion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Continuum contact formulation; 2.3 Finite element formulations; 2.4 Adhesion examples
2.5 Peeling contact2.6 Rough surface contact; 2.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3 Soft Matter Modeling of Biological Cells; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Soft matter modeling of cells; 3.2.1 The future is soft; 3.2.2 The reasons to use liquid crystal elastomers to model cell and focal adhesion; 3.2.3 Elasticity of soft contact/cell adhesion and surface material property sensing; 3.2.4 Cell and ECM modeling; 3.2.4.1 Hyperelastic model; 3.2.4.2 Liquid crystal elastomer model; 3.3 A nanoscale adhesive contact model; 3.4 Meshfree Galerkin formulation and the computational algorithm
3.5 Numerical simulations3.5.1 Validation of the material models; 3.5.2 Endothelial cell simulations; 3.5.3 Stem cell simulations; 3.6 Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4 Modeling the Mechanics of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks: Nonaffine Deformation and Presence of Long-range Correlations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Network representation and generation; 4.3 Affine vs. non-affine deformation; 4.4 Network microstructure: scaling properties of the fiber density function; 4.5 Network elasticity: the equivalent continuum and its elastic moduli
4.6 Boundary value problems on dense fiber network do mains
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"Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics" is a compilation and selection of recent works in soft matter mechanics by a group of active researchers in the field. The main objectives of this book are first to disseminate the latest developments in soft matter mechanics in the field of applied and computational mechanics, and second to introduce soft matter mechanics as a sub-discipline of soft matter physics. As an important branch of soft matter physics, soft matter mechanics has developed rapidly in recent years. A number of the novel approaches discussed in this book are unique, such as the coarse grained finite element method for modeling colloidal adhesion, entropic elasticity, meshfree simulations of liquid crystal elastomers, simulations of DNA, etc. The book is intended for researchers and graduate students in the field of mechanics, condensed matter physics and biomaterials. Dr. Shaofan Li is a professor of the University of California-Berkeley, U.S.A; Dr. Bohua Sun is a professor of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.  .
Amorphous substances.
Complex fluids.
Biomaterials.
Mechanics.
Mechanics, Applied.
Polymers  .
Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.
Biomaterials.
Solid Mechanics.
Polymer Sciences.