Conference Agenda

DILATATIONAL AND SHEAR WAVES IN PORO-VISCOELASTIC TISSUES

P. Vena¹, T. Royston²

¹Politecnico Di Milano, Italy; ²University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

THE STRESS (AND STRAIN) OF CHARACTERISING VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS

G. Mattei, L. Cacopardo, A. Ahluwalia

Universtiy of Pisa, Italy

ACTIVE-STRAIN ELECTROMECHANICS OF GASTRIC TISSUE

S. Brandstaeter¹, A. Gizzi², S. L. Fuchs^1,3, R. C. Aydin⁴, C. J. Cyron^3,4

¹Technical University of Munich, Germany; ²Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy; ³Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; ⁴Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

MODELISTIC METHODS FOR A RATIONAL APPROACH TO BARIATRIC SURGERY: THE ROLE OF BIOMECHANICS

E. L. Carniel^1,2, A. Albanese³, C. G. Fontanella^2,4, P. Pavan^1,2, C. Salmaso¹, S. Todros^1,2, I. Toniolo¹, M. Foletto^2,3

¹Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Italy; ³IFSO Bariatric Center of Excellence, University of Padova, Italy; ⁴Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

AN EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE FORCE REQUIRED TO PERFORATE THE COLON DURING COLONOSCOPY

S. Johnson^1,2, M. Schultz^1,2, M. Scholze^3,4, T. Smith³, J. Woodfield⁵, N. Hammer^3,6,7

¹Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; ²Gastroenterology Unit, Southern District Health Board, Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin, New Zealand; ³Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Department of Anatomy; ⁴Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany; ⁵Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; ⁶Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, University of Leipzig, Germany; ⁷Fraunhofer IWU, Dresden, Germany

EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF STOMACH MECHANICS IN POST-BARIATRIC CONFIGURATIONS

C. Salmaso¹, I. Toniolo¹, P. Da Roit¹, E. L. Carniel^1,2

¹Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Italy

MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE RAT DIAPHRAGM AFFECTED BY INTERMITTENT HYPOBARIC HYPOXIA

E. Rivera¹, C. Garcia-Herrera¹, E. Herrera², A. Gonzalez-Candia², D. Celentano³, B. Krause³

¹Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile; ²Universidad de Chile, Chile; ³Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile