Mechanical Modeling of Three-dimensional Plant Tissue Indented by a Probe
dc.contributor.author | Malgat, Richard | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Boudaoud, Arezki | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Faure, François | en_US |
dc.contributor.editor | Jan Bender and Christian Duriez and Fabrice Jaillet and Gabriel Zachmann | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-16T07:27:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-16T07:27:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Morphogenesis in a developing organism depends on the mechanics of the structural elements of the organism. In plants, typical experiments involve indenting tissues with a probe and measuring the force needed to reach a given depth. However, the heterogeneous structure and complex geometry of living tissues makes it a challenge to determine how such measurements are related to mechanical properties of the tissue, such as elastic moduli or internal pressure. Indeed, this task requires to perform a large number of direct mechanical simulations with a mesh representing the tissue. Here we propose a framework to achieve this task, using the Simulation Open Framework Architecture (SOFA) platform. We start from a realistic tissue structure corresponding to an early flower bud. We use a mesh where cells are polyhedral-shaped and are made of a liquid under pressure and where the faces separating two cells are thin elastic plates undergoing bending and stretching, and we model the interaction of this mesh with a spherical rigid probe. We obtain force versus depth curves that can be compared to experimental data. Thus our framework enables a comprehensive exploration of how mechanical parameters and probe position influence experimental outcomes, yielding a first step toward understanding the mechanical basis of morphogenesis. | en_US |
dc.description.seriesinformation | Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-905674-71-2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.2312/vriphys.20141224 | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association | en_US |
dc.subject | I.3.5 [Computer Graphics] | en_US |
dc.subject | Physically Based Modeling | en_US |
dc.title | Mechanical Modeling of Three-dimensional Plant Tissue Indented by a Probe | en_US |
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