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The annual GiG: Groups in Galway
(NUI Galway, 2015)
The GiG (Groups in Galway) conference, and related activity, has been
running annually since 1978 and is the longest running annual international
mathematical conference on a special topic. It has its origin from the ...
A refinement of a conjecture of Quillen
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-09)
We present some new results on the cohomology of a large scope of SL2 groups in degrees above the virtual cohomological dimension, yielding some partial positive results for the Quillen conjecture in rank one. We combine ...
Ray W Ogden: An Appreciation
(SAGE Publications, 2015-07)
This special issue of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids is dedicated to Professor Ray Ogden FRS on the occasion
of his 70th birthday. It is a companion volume to another special issue edited by our colleagues ...
Initial stress symmetry and its applications in elasticity
(The Royal Society, 2015-10-28)
An initial stress within a solid can arise to support external loads or from processes such as thermal expansion in inert matter or growth and remodelling in living materials. For this reason, it is useful to develop a ...
Toward a predictive assessment of stab-penetration forces
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2015-09)
Collaborative research between the disciplines of forensic pathology and biomechanics was undertaken to investigate the hyperelastic properties of human skin, to determine the force required for sharp instrument penetration ...
Some design considerations for polymer-free drug-eluting stents: a mathematical approach
(Elsevier (Science Direct), 2015)
In this paper we provide the first model of drug elution from polymer-free arterial drug-eluting
stents. The generalised model is capable of predicting the drug release from a number of polymer-free systems including those ...
Measuring the linear and nonlinear elastic properties of brain tissue with shear waves and inverse analysis
(Springer, 2015-02-20)
We use supersonic shear wave imaging (SSI) technique to measure not only the linear but also the nonlinear elastic properties of brain matter. Here, we tested six porcine brains ex vivo and measured the velocities of the ...
A mathematical model for the release of peptide-binding drugs from affinity hydrogels
(Palgrave, 2015-01-09)
A mathematical model for the release of peptide-binding drugs from affinity hydrogels is analyzed in detail. The model is not specific to any particular peptide/drug/gel system, and can describe drug release from a large ...
Gent models for the inflation of spherical balloons
(Elsevier, 2015)
We revisit an iconic deformation of non-linear elasticity: the inflation of a rubber spherical thin shell. We use the 3-parameter Mooney and Gent-Gent (GG) phenomenological models to explain the stretch-strain curve of a ...
Extreme softness of brain matter in simple shear
(Elsevier, 2015-03-13)
We show that porcine brain matter can be modelled accurately as a very soft rubber-like material using the Mooney-Rivlin strain energy function, up to strains as high as 60%. This result followed from simple shear experiments ...