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Everything about Stiffness
Resistance to deformation in response to force
Stiffness or rigidity is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force. The inverse of stiffness is flexibility or pliability: the more flexible an object is, the less stiff it is. Other terms with related meanings are compliance and elasticity. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: StiffnessA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Targeting extracellular matrix stiffness and mechanotransducers to improve cancer therapyInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: A survey of the core-congruential formulation for geometrically nonlinear TL finite elementsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their SubstrateCited 6,015 times
- Go sideways: Elasticity (physics)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Strength of materialsA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Rigidity or a measure of rigidity.
Noun Inflexibility or a measure of inflexibility.
Noun Inelegance; a lack of relaxedness.
Noun Muscular tension due to unaccustomed or excessive exercise or work; soreness.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate
Expert consensus document on arterial stiffness: methodological issues and clinical applications
Prediction of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality With Arterial Stiffness
Aortic Stiffness Is an Independent Predictor of All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Hypertensive Patients
Reduction of stiffness and mass matrices
Effects of substrate stiffness on cell morphology, cytoskeletal structure, and adhesion
Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events
Nuclear Lamin-A Scales with Tissue Stiffness and Enhances Matrix-Directed Differentiation
🆕 Influential since 2022
Targeting extracellular matrix stiffness and mechanotransducers to improve cancer therapy
Modulating extracellular matrix stiffness: a strategic approach to boost cancer immunotherapy
Extracellular matrix stiffness: mechanisms in tumor progression and therapeutic potential in cancer
The strength and stiffness of oriented wood and cellulose-fibre materials: A review
Biological role of matrix stiffness in tumor growth and treatment
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕A survey of the core-congruential formulation for geometrically nonlinear TL finite elementsCarlos A. Felippa · 1994
- 📕Single-strain-gage force/stiffness buckling prediction techniques on a hat-stiffened panelLarry D. Hudson · 1991
- 📕Closed-form solutions for linear regulator design of mechanical systems including optimal weighting matrix selectionBrantley R. Hanks · 1991
- 📕Stiffness characteristics of composite rotor blades with elastic couplingsDavid J. Piatak · 1997
Be StiffRichard Balls · 2014- 📕Fracture analysis of the FAA/NASA wide stiffened panelsB. R. Seshadri · 1998
- 📕A global approach for the identification of structural connection propertiesCharles Lawrence · 1990
- 📕Methods for the identification of material parameters in distributed models for flexible structuresH. Thomas Banks · 1986
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