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The Mechanics of Hydrogels
Mechanical Properties, Testing, and Applications
- 1st Edition - August 18, 2022
- Editors: Hua Li, Vadim Silberschmidt
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 8 6 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 8 6 3 - 6
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Request a sales quoteThe 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.
- 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
academic researchers and grad students in mechanics of advanced materials and engineering; R&D researchers in industry; researchers in biomaterials/bioengineering;
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Elsevier Series in Mechanics of Advanced Materials
- Copyright
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Mechanical characterization of hydrogels
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Classification of hydrogels
- 1.3. Mechanical testing of hydrogels
- 1.4. Key mechanical properties
- 1.5. Concluding remarks
- 2. Deformation and fracture behaviors of long-fiber hydrogels
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Experimental approaches
- 2.3. Deformation behaviors
- 2.4. Fracture behavior
- 2.5. Summary and conclusions
- 3. Linear and nonlinear deformation behavior of hydrogels
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. The linear theory of chemomechanical coupling
- 3.3. Analytical solutions of linear chemomechanical coupling problems
- 3.4. Nonlinear swelling modeling of hydrogel
- 3.5. Conclusions
- 4. Mechanical testing of hydrogels
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Standard mechanical tests
- 4.3. Indentation
- 4.4. Nondestructive elastography
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Multi-scale instrumented indentation of hydrogels
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Theoretical fundamentals
- 5.3. Multi-scale indentation experimental technique
- 5.4. Typical applications
- 5.5. Conclusions and future perspectives
- 6. Fatigue of hydrogels
- 6.1. Characterization of fatigue
- 6.2. Fatigue of hydrogels with long chains as elastic dissipators
- 6.3. Lake–Thomas model
- 6.4. Fatigue of hydrogels with heterogeneous structures
- 6.5. Fatigue of hydrogel adhesion
- 6.6. Prospects
- 7. Dynamic behaviors of the hydrogel
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Experiment
- 7.3. Results and discussion for static compressive experiments
- 7.4. Results and discussion for impact experiments
- 7.5. Concluding remarks
- 7.6. Expectation
- 8. Numerical modeling of hydrogels: from microscopic network to macroscopic material
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Fundamental concepts
- 8.3. Numerical modelling
- 8.4. Conclusion
- 9. Multiscale modeling of hydrogels
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Nanoscale modeling of hydrogels
- 9.3. Mesoscale modeling of hydrogels (new insights)
- 9.4. Macroscale modeling of hydrogels
- 9.5. Discussion on methods for modeling hydrogels
- 9.6. Conclusions
- 10. Modeling of stimuli-responsive hydrogels: a transient analysis
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Formulation
- 10.3. Model examination for ionic-strength–sensitive hydrogel
- 10.4. Parameter studies for ionic-strength–sensitive hydrogel
- 10.5. Parameter studies for electric-sensitive hydrogel
- 10.6. Summary and conclusions
- 11. Mechanically driven phase transition of physical hydrogels
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Formulation
- 11.3. Results and discussion
- 11.4. Conclusions
- 12. Large deformation behavior of magnetic hydrogels
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Magneto-chemo-mechanical model
- 12.3. Magneto-chemo-electro-mechanical model
- 12.4. Large deformation of magnetic hydrogels
- 12.5. Conclusion
- 13. Enzyme functionalized hydrogels: relationship between stimuli and mechanical response
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Methodology
- 13.3. Results and discussion
- 13.4. Conclusion
- Index
- No. of pages: 340
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 18, 2022
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081028629
- eBook ISBN: 9780081028636
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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, SingaporeVS
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, UKRead The Mechanics of Hydrogels on ScienceDirect