Conference Agenda

9:45am - 9:55am
ID: 1003

HIERARCHICAL LOOPING RESULTS IN EXTREME EXTENSIBILITY OF SILK FIBRE COMPOSITES

D. Liprandi¹, M. Ramírez², A.-C. Joel^3,6, P. Michalik⁴, J. O. Wolff^1,5

¹Evolutionary Biomechanics, University of Greifswald, Germany; ²Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Argentina; ³Institute of Biology II, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; ⁴Zoological Museum, University of Greifswald, Germany; ⁵School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; ⁶Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

9:55am - 10:05am
ID: 464

STIFFNESS VALUES OF RAT TAIL TENDONS MEASURED WITH SCANNING ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY AND TENSILE TESTS

V. Margrette^1,3, S. Blouin¹, F. Reppe², W. Wagermaier², P. Thurner³, M. Hartmann¹

¹Ludwig Bolzmann Institute of Osteologie, Austria; ²Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; ³TU Wien, Austria

10:05am - 10:15am
ID: 716

REVEALING THE ACTUAL STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIOR OF ELECTROSPUN HIERARCHICAL SCAFFOLDS FOR TENDON/LIGAMENT REGENERATION

G. Marchiori¹, N. Sancisi², G. Tozzi³, G. Giavaresi¹, A. Zucchelli², A. Sensini⁴

¹CS Surgical Sciences and Technologies, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Italy; ²Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy; ³School of Engineering, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom; ⁴CTR and cBITE Depts., MERLN Institute-Maastricht University, the Netherlands

10:15am - 10:25am
ID: 1005

CHARACTERIZATION OF CRACK PROPAGATION IN A TRIPHASIC MEW PCL SCAFFOLD BY MEANS OF DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION

A. Amicone¹, M. Palanca², G. Galteri², L. Cristofolini², S. J. Ferguson¹

¹ETH Zurich, Institute for Biomechanics, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

10:25am - 10:35am
ID: 1028

COATING RESPONSE TO MECHANICAL LOADING IN AZ31 MG ALLOYS IN THREE-POINT BENDING

B. Yavuzyegit^1,2, K. Katerina³, B. Morrison³, S. Karabal⁴, N. Smith⁵, S. Usov⁵, P. Shashkov⁵, R. Bonithon³, G. Blunn¹

¹School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Türkiye; ³School of Mechanical & Design Engineering Faculty of Technology, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; ⁴Henry Royce Institute, Department of Materials, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom; ⁵BioCera Medical Limited, Haverhill, Suffolk, United Kingdom

10:35am - 10:45am
ID: 1147

LASER DRILLING OF BIOMORPHICALLY ENGINEERED HYDROXYAPATITE SCAFFOLDS

E. Daskalakis¹, N. Iqbal¹, S. Loganathan¹, P. Giannoudis^2,3, A. Jha¹

¹School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, LS2 9JT; ²Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Leeds, UK, LS2 9JT; ³NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, UK, LS2 9LU

10:45am - 10:55am
ID: 1257

EFFECTS OF MINERALIZATION ON THE HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF COLLAGEN IN TURKEY LEG TENDON

K. Zheng

Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom