New insights into elastic fiber assembly

JE Wagenseil, RP Mecham - Birth Defects Research Part C …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… During the imaging period, the fibers shift location in the imaging plane due to active …
Cross-sections of individual collagen fibers and a network of microfibrils can be seen next to the …

Virtual characterization of MDF fiber network

J Sliseris, H Andrä, M Kabel, B Dix, B Plinke - European Journal of Wood …, 2017 - Springer
… discretization of a fiber network, modulus of elasticity, shear modulus and Poisson’s ratio of
wood … The computed in-plane modulus of elasticity is in good agreement with experimentally …

A simplified probabilistic macroscopic model for estimating microscopic fracture development in idealized planar fiber network materials

P Isaksson - Mathematics and mechanics of solids, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
elastic strain field ε are present. The fiber network is further understood to have in-plane
This means that the network consists of, in total, NF linearly elastic fibers with unit thickness …

A computational framework for network modeling of fibrous biological tissue deformation and rupture

TI Zohdi - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2007 - Elsevier
… to that observed in wrinkling of thin elastic sheets. Several researchers have adopted … ,
we consider a planar rectangular sheet, composed of the fiber network, clamped on all four …

Elastic fibers enhance the mechanical integrity of the human lumbar anulus fibrosus in the radial direction

LJ Smith, S Byers, JJ Costi, NL Fazzalari - Annals of biomedical …, 2008 - Springer
elastic fiber network may play an important functional role. In this study, it was hypothesized
that elastic fibers … , perpendicular to the plane containing the collagen fibers. Using a …

The elastic fibre network of the human lumbar anulus fibrosus: architecture, mechanical function and potential role in the progression of intervertebral disc …

LJ Smith, NL Fazzalari - European Spine Journal, 2009 - Springer
… reconstructions of elastic fibre arrangements in the lamellar plane [62] and immunohistochemical
studies in the transverse plane have demonstrated that intralamellar elastic fibres …

Numerical simulation of fibrous biomaterials with randomly distributed fiber network structure

T Jin, I Stanciulescu - Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 2016 - Springer
… where k is the axial elastic modulus of the fiber segment at low strains and b is a dimensionless
parameter. A similar exponential form that belongs to the Fung-type model (Fung 1967) …

[HTML][HTML] A study about the impact of the topological arrangement of fibers on fiber-reinforced composites: some guidelines aiming at the development of new ultra-stiff …

I Giorgio, A Ciallella, D Scerrato - International Journal of Solids and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… an in-plane orthotropic lamina within the framework of the strain-gradient elasticity theory. …
of an orthogonal lattice network of curved fibers characterizing fiber-reinforced composites (…

Construction of second gradient continuum models for random fibrous networks and analysis of size effects

K Berkache, S Deogekar, I Goda, RC Picu… - Composite …, 2017 - Elsevier
… order, gradient elasticity models for random networks and … the mechanical behavior of
discrete fiber network models. In this … fibers are deposited on a plane since the contacts between …

Discrete element method models of elastic and elastoplastic fiber assemblies

Y Guo, Q Liu, Y Li, Z Li, H Jin, C Wassgren… - AIChE …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… For the random fiber networks, the overall network stiffness decreases as the variability of …
from the horizontal plane, thus promoting the bending deformation of fibers in the compression…