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15 - General Engineering
University of Oxford
Continuum modeling of a neuronal cell under blast loading.
The authors propose the first fully 3D model of a cell under blast loading with differentiated cell-structures. It captures successfully some of the intrinsic characteristics of neuron deformation under blast loading and suggests that nucleus membrane might be subject to damage in a similar manner as the widely reported cell membrane damage under such loading. Such information, inaccessible with such precision through experimental means, provides a whole new set of data available to experimentalists. This work has been the basis of a Dr Jerusalem's successful ERC Starting Grant proposal, consisting of a development campaign for this new category of models.