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Modelling the viscoelasticity of cell shape changes
Author(s) -
Hosking Roger J.,
Husain Saiful A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.200701010
Subject(s) - viscoelasticity , creep , stress relaxation , relaxation (psychology) , function (biology) , power law , strain (injury) , stress (linguistics) , power (physics) , materials science , mechanics , mathematics , physics , thermodynamics , anatomy , biology , philosophy , neuroscience , microbiology and biotechnology , linguistics , statistics
In the theory of linear viscoelasticity, creep and relaxation functions are the important delay kernels in the stress‐strain relations. Quite recently, a creep function power law has been obtained experimentally for an isolated living cell (on the scale of the cell). The corresponding form of the relaxation function is derived using the interconversion formula. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)