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The Mechanics of Hydrogels

Mechanical Properties, Testing, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - August 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Hua Li, Vadim Silberschmidt
  • Language: English

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Description

The Mechanics of Hydrogels: Mechanical Properties, Testing, and Applications offers readers a systematic description of the mechanical properties and characterizations of hydrogels. Practical topics such as manufacturing hydrogels with controlled mechanical properties and the mechanical testing of hydrogels are covered at length, as are areas such as inelastic and nonlinear deformation, rheological characterization, fracture and indentation testing, mechanical properties of cellularly responsive hydrogels, and more. Proper instrumentation and modeling techniques for measuring the mechanical properties of hydrogels are also explored.

Key features

  • Links the mechanical and biological behaviors and applications of hydrogels
  • Looks at the manufacturing and mechanical testing of hydrogels
  • Discusses the design and use of hydrogels in a wide array of applications

Readership

academic researchers and grad students in mechanics of advanced materials and engineering; R&D researchers in industry; researchers in biomaterials/bioengineering;

Table of contents

1. Mechanical characterization of hydrogels
Mohammad R. Islam and Michelle L. Oyen

2. Deformation and fracture behaviors of long-fiber hydrogels
Xing Gao, Emrah Sozumert, Wei-Wei Zhao, Zhi-Jun Shi and Vadim V. Silberschmidt

3. Linear and nonlinear deformation behavior of hydrogels
Qingsheng Yang, Xingquan Wang, Lianhua Ma and Hua Li

4. Mechanical testing of hydrogels
Mark Ahearne

5. Multiscale instrumented indentation of hydrogels
Qiang Zhang

6. Fatigue of hydrogels
Tongqing Lu, Wenlei Zhang and Yifan Zhou

7. Dynamic behaviors of the hydrogel
Jianxun Zhang, Yinggang Miao and Hua Li

8. Numerical modeling of hydrogels: from microscopic network to macroscopic material
Emrah Sozumert, Xing Gao and Vadim V. Silberschmidt

9. Multiscale modeling of hydrogels
Zishun Liu, Shoujing Zheng, Ziqian Li, Shuai Xu, J. Jincheng Lei and William Toh

10. Modeling of stimuli-responsive hydrogels: a transient analysis
Hua Li

11. Mechanically driven phase transition of physical hydrogels
Tao Wu

12. Large deformation behavior of magnetic hydrogels
Qimin Liu

13. Enzyme functionalized hydrogels: relationship between stimuli and mechanical response
K.B. Goh

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 18, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

HL

Hua Li

Dr. Li’s research interests include the multiphysics modelling of soft matters, development of highly efficient numerical computational methodology, simulation of sustainable energy, and structural dynamics. He is the author of Smart Hydrogel Modeling, and co-author of Reduced Modeling of Planar Fuel Cells; Meshless Methods and Their Numericl Properties; and Rotating Shell Dynamics. He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles published in an array of international journals, and was awarded Winner of Top Project of the Singapore Maritime Institute Forum-Research Showcase 2015.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

VS

Vadim Silberschmidt

Professor Vadim Silberschmidt is Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier book series Mechanics of Advanced Materials. He is also Associate Editor and/or serves on the board of a number of renowned journals. He has co-authored six research monographs and more than 620 peer-reviewed scientific papers on mechanics and micromechanics of deformation, damage, and fracture in advanced materials under various conditions.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Chair of Mechanics of Materials, ICoVIS Director, and Head of the Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group, Loughborough University, UK

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