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Flexural Rigidity Measurements of Biopolymers Using Gliding Assays
Published on: November 9, 2012
Buckling analysis of orthotropic protein microtubules under axial and radial compression based on couple stress
Yaghoub Tadi Beni1, M Karimi Zeverdejani2, Fahimeh Mehralian2
1Faculty of Engineering, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran.
Abstract:
Protein microtubules (MTs) are one of the important intercellular components and have a vital role in the stability and strength of the cells. Due to applied external loads, protein microtubules may be involved buckling phenomenon. Due to impact of protein microtubules in cell reactions, it is important to determine their critical buckling load. Considering nature of protein microtubules, various parameters are effective on microtubules buckling. The small size of microtubules and also lack of uniformity of MTs properties in different directions caused the necessity of accuracy in the analysis of these bio-structure. In fact, microtubules must be considered as a size dependent cylinder, which behave as an orthotropic material. Hence, in the present work using first-order shear deformation model (FSDT), the buckling equations of anisotropic MTs are derived based on new modified couple stress theory (NMCST). After solving the stability equations, the influences of various parameters are measured on the MTs critical buckling load.
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