Finite-Element Analysis of Microbiological Structures

The recent development of nanomanipulation tools such as optical tweezers or atomic force microscopes has paved the way to the exploration of the mechanical properties of biological material at the micro- and nanometric scale. The use of these instruments is nowadays generalized, however, the interpretation of the results remains a challenge. It is well known that the deformation of an object under a load depends not only on the mechanical properties of the material but also on its geometry. This factor seriously hinders the interpretation of these measurements. To master this complexity, it is nowadays possible to numerically simulate the measuring experimental procedure with various parameters until the simulation fits the measurement results. In this chapter we briefly explain this analysis technique, review its application domains, and mention some recent works that employed this approach.

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