Ellen M. Arruda

Professor

E-mail: arruda@umich.edu Phone: (734) 763-5328
Fax: (734) 615-6647 Office: 3126 GG Brown Lab / 2125

Research Interests:

Mechanical behavior of materials including polymers, elastomers and soft tissue
[Under construction.]
Tissue engineering of tendon and muscle constructs
SOT/Muscle Movie
Constitutive modeling of growth, remodeling and functional adaptation in soft tissue
[Harish Narayanan]
Deformation mechanisms in polymers; crystal transformation mechanisms in semi-crystalline polymers
Split Hopkinson pressure bar testing of polymers and elastomers for high strain rate applications including crashworthiness in automotive applications.

Recent Publications:

“Denervation Decreases Tendon Extensibility and Increases Tendon Stiffness”
Arruda EM, Mundy K, Calve SC, and Baar K
Journal of Physiology, Submitted in 2004
“Modeling the Large Inelastic Deformation Response of Non-Filled and Silica-Filled SL5170 Cured Resin”
Wu Z, Ahzi S, Arruda EM and Makradi A
Journal of the Materials Science, Submitted in 2004
“Remodeling of Biological Tissue: Mechanically Induced Reorientation of a Transversely Isotropic Chain Network”
Kuhl E, Garikipati K, Arruda EM and Grosh K
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Submitted in 2004
“Tissue Engineering of Recellularized Microvascular Grafts”
Borschel GH, Huang YC, Calve SC, Arruda EM, Lynch JB, Dow DE, Kuzon WM, Dennis RG,
and Brown DL
Tissue Engineering, To appear in 2005

A complete list of publications can be obtained here.

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