Modelling virus contact mechanics under atomic force imaging conditions

DOI10.1080/00036811.2022.2044027MaRDI QIDQ5095336zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Piersanti, Kristen White, Bogdan Dragnea, R. Temam

Publication date 8 August 2022

Published in Applicable Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15340

zbMATH Keywords

adhesioncontact mechanicsconvex regular polygondistributed strainelastic forceelliptic variational inequalityexistenceprimal-dual active set methodrelaxationuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Variational inequalities (49J40) Molecular, statistical, and kinetic theories in solid mechanics (74A25) Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Biomechanics (92C10)

Abstract: In this paper we present a discrete model governing the deformation of a convex regular polygon subjected not to cross a given flat rigid surface, on which it initially lies in correspondence of one point only. First, we set up the model in the form of a set of variational inequalities posed over a non-empty, closed and convex subset of a suitable Euclidean space. Secondly, we show the existence and uniqueness of the solution. The model provides a simplified illustration of processes involved in virus imaging by atomic force microscopy: adhesion to a surface, distributed strain, relaxation to a shape that balances adhesion and elastic forces. The analysis of numerical simulations results based on this model opens a new way of estimating the contact area and elastic parameters in virus contact mechanics studies.

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