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Experimental estimation of arterial collagen waviness
Vávra, Jan ; Man, Vojtěch (referee) ; Polzer, Stanislav (advisor)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the experimental estimation of collagen waviness in arterial . The aim of this thesis is to get orientation of fibres from polarized light microscopy. This is possible thanks to phase correlation and image analysis in programe called MATLAB. After that, it is needed to vertify results in program called Hyperfit. Its done by estimating coefficients of constitutive model and comparing them with biaxial tests of porcine aortas.
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Analysis of Influence of Collagen Organization on Mechanical Properties of Arteries
Novák, Kamil ; Daniel, Matej (referee) ; Vimmr, Jan (referee) ; Burša, Jiří (advisor)
This dissertation thesis concerns with Analysis of Influence of Collagen Organization on Mechanical Properties of Arteries and it is divided into three main parts. Motivation for this dissertation thesis was in a study reviewing effect of material model upon resulting stresses in AAA. The effect was calculated in 70 patient-specific geometries of AAA, which exceeds the number of geometries in other scientific papers by one order. Within this study, two material models were used, i.e. real one and 100× stiffer, and obtained stresses were mutually compared. It was quantified that peak stress difference can be higher than 20 % in 10% of patients and therefore the real material model should be preferred over the artificial one although operation with this model is more demanding. The second part of this thesis deals with an identification of structural parameters (orientation and dispersion of collagen fibres) of porcine aortic tissue by using adjusted Fast Fourier Transform based algorithm. The extracted structural parameters were inserted into two-layer structure-motivated constitutive model Martufi-Gasser. This model was validated and its predictive capabilities were also tested with fine results. The most important information obtained from the digital image processing of ~9000 micrographs is existence of only one family of dispersed collagen fibres which breaks the current dogma present in many scientific papers about two families of collagen fibres. The third part concerns with a proposal of an automated phase-correlation based algorithm for obtaining collagen fibre direction from polarized light microscopy images. The proposed algorithm was verified and validated and it yields histograms of collagen fibre directions with overall number of measured points larger than it would be possible to get from any manual measurement. The limitation of the original proposed algorithm is in 90° period of polarized light intensity, thus the method results in angles in the range of 0°–90. Therefore the end of the thesis is dedicated resolving this problem and obtaining real angles in a span of 0°–180°. To this end, the microscope set-up was changed and the algorithm was adjusted accordingly. The original and the adjusted algorithms are collagen-specific, fast and an operator independent. Despite all the author´s effort put into collagen fibre waviness quantification directly from the histograms, the waviness has not been quantified yet in this way and it remains at the stage of research.
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Wood microstructure analysis onto the strength parameters
Martinek, Radomír ; Kuklík,, Pavel (referee) ; Vaněrek, Jan (advisor)
This work focuses on a closer examination of the microstructure of wood and the relationship between microscopic and mechanical properties of wood. The main point of the practical part of this study is a measurement of microfibril angle (MFA) in the S2 layer of a wood cell wall. This layer occupies more than 80 % of the total thickness of the cell wall and thus has the greatest influence on the mechanical properties of the wood cells. MFA values as well as values of bulk density show a strong dependence on the modulus of elasticity in the longitudinal direction, as well as on the values of shrinkage. The theoretical part involves methods for measuring MFA, variations of MFA, wood properties evolving from the MFA and also mechanical properties of wood cell walls measured by nanoindentation.
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ANALYSES OF STRUCTURE OF COLLAGEN FIBRES IN ARTERIAL WALL USING MODERN METHODS OF LIGHT MICROSCOPY
Turčanová, Michaela ; Kochová, Petra (referee) ; Hampl, Aleš (referee) ; Burša, Jiří (advisor)
The doctoral thesis deals with the analysis of the arrangement of collagen fibres in arteries and their correct evaluation and use in structurally motivated constitutive models of the material. The first part of the work is focused on the literature search of mechanical properties of arteries and on an overview of available methods for the detection of waviness, orientation and dispersion of fibres. Most works identify fibre angles as additional parameter from mechanical tests and thus degrade the structural nature of the model. The second part describes an automatic algorithm that can evaluate the local directions of fibres and their scattering from images from a polarizing microscope and structurebased hyperelastic constitutive models. Furthermore, there is an emphasis on choosing the most appropriate imaging method based on fluorescence microscopy, which will help us to distinguish the waviness and scattering of fibres. In the next part of the thesis, two experiments on porcine arteries are presented in order to determine the influence of different magnitudes of biaxial deformation on fiber orientation and dispersion. The last part of the work presents the evaluated structural parameters for porcine and human aortas, which were analyzed not only under polarized light, but also under a laser scanning confocal microscope, thanks to which the waviness of the fibers and their global direction were obtained.
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Method´s analysis of submicroscopy structure of wood cell wall determination
Martinek, Radomír ; Kuklík,, Pavel (referee) ; Vaněrek, Jan (advisor)
The content of this study is focused on the influence of the structure of wood at microscopic and submicroscopic level on its mechanical properties. The wood cell wall consists of several layers, the dominant layer being layer S2, which occupies up to 80 % of the total thickness of the wood cell wall. Unique feature of this layer is that cellulose microfibrils placed in this layer are highly aligned and spirally wound around the cell axis. The inclination of these microfibrils is called microfibril angle (MFA) and is the key feature that affects mechanical properties of wood and its shrinkage. In theoretical part of this thesis methods for measuring microfibril angle are described. A method for measuring mechanical properties of the wood cell wall called nanoindentation is discussed in detail. In the practical part of this thesis, microfibril angle is measured by means of polarized light microscopy and mechanical properties of wood cell wall is determined by means of nanoindentation.
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Analysis of Influence of Collagen Organization on Mechanical Properties of Arteries
Novák, Kamil ; Daniel, Matej (referee) ; Vimmr, Jan (referee) ; Burša, Jiří (advisor)
This dissertation thesis concerns with Analysis of Influence of Collagen Organization on Mechanical Properties of Arteries and it is divided into three main parts. Motivation for this dissertation thesis was in a study reviewing effect of material model upon resulting stresses in AAA. The effect was calculated in 70 patient-specific geometries of AAA, which exceeds the number of geometries in other scientific papers by one order. Within this study, two material models were used, i.e. real one and 100× stiffer, and obtained stresses were mutually compared. It was quantified that peak stress difference can be higher than 20 % in 10% of patients and therefore the real material model should be preferred over the artificial one although operation with this model is more demanding. The second part of this thesis deals with an identification of structural parameters (orientation and dispersion of collagen fibres) of porcine aortic tissue by using adjusted Fast Fourier Transform based algorithm. The extracted structural parameters were inserted into two-layer structure-motivated constitutive model Martufi-Gasser. This model was validated and its predictive capabilities were also tested with fine results. The most important information obtained from the digital image processing of ~9000 micrographs is existence of only one family of dispersed collagen fibres which breaks the current dogma present in many scientific papers about two families of collagen fibres. The third part concerns with a proposal of an automated phase-correlation based algorithm for obtaining collagen fibre direction from polarized light microscopy images. The proposed algorithm was verified and validated and it yields histograms of collagen fibre directions with overall number of measured points larger than it would be possible to get from any manual measurement. The limitation of the original proposed algorithm is in 90° period of polarized light intensity, thus the method results in angles in the range of 0°–90. Therefore the end of the thesis is dedicated resolving this problem and obtaining real angles in a span of 0°–180°. To this end, the microscope set-up was changed and the algorithm was adjusted accordingly. The original and the adjusted algorithms are collagen-specific, fast and an operator independent. Despite all the author´s effort put into collagen fibre waviness quantification directly from the histograms, the waviness has not been quantified yet in this way and it remains at the stage of research.
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Method´s analysis of submicroscopy structure of wood cell wall determination
Martinek, Radomír ; Kuklík,, Pavel (referee) ; Vaněrek, Jan (advisor)
The content of this study is focused on the influence of the structure of wood at microscopic and submicroscopic level on its mechanical properties. The wood cell wall consists of several layers, the dominant layer being layer S2, which occupies up to 80 % of the total thickness of the wood cell wall. Unique feature of this layer is that cellulose microfibrils placed in this layer are highly aligned and spirally wound around the cell axis. The inclination of these microfibrils is called microfibril angle (MFA) and is the key feature that affects mechanical properties of wood and its shrinkage. In theoretical part of this thesis methods for measuring microfibril angle are described. A method for measuring mechanical properties of the wood cell wall called nanoindentation is discussed in detail. In the practical part of this thesis, microfibril angle is measured by means of polarized light microscopy and mechanical properties of wood cell wall is determined by means of nanoindentation.
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Wood microstructure analysis onto the strength parameters
Martinek, Radomír ; Kuklík,, Pavel (referee) ; Vaněrek, Jan (advisor)
This work focuses on a closer examination of the microstructure of wood and the relationship between microscopic and mechanical properties of wood. The main point of the practical part of this study is a measurement of microfibril angle (MFA) in the S2 layer of a wood cell wall. This layer occupies more than 80 % of the total thickness of the cell wall and thus has the greatest influence on the mechanical properties of the wood cells. MFA values as well as values of bulk density show a strong dependence on the modulus of elasticity in the longitudinal direction, as well as on the values of shrinkage. The theoretical part involves methods for measuring MFA, variations of MFA, wood properties evolving from the MFA and also mechanical properties of wood cell walls measured by nanoindentation.
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Experimental estimation of arterial collagen waviness
Vávra, Jan ; Man, Vojtěch (referee) ; Polzer, Stanislav (advisor)
The bachelor thesis is focused on the experimental estimation of collagen waviness in arterial . The aim of this thesis is to get orientation of fibres from polarized light microscopy. This is possible thanks to phase correlation and image analysis in programe called MATLAB. After that, it is needed to vertify results in program called Hyperfit. Its done by estimating coefficients of constitutive model and comparing them with biaxial tests of porcine aortas.
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