title: A computer simulation of the creep process of the cell wall using stress relaxation parameters.
abstract: The stress relaxation of the cell wall of pea plants was measured and viscoelastic parameters were obtained according to the stress-relaxation analysis developed by Yamamoto et al. (Plant & Cell Physiol. 1970). The creep process of the cell wall was simulated by a numerical integration using stress-relaxation parameters, because the direct conversion of the stress relaxation process to the creep is impractical. In the conversion, a personal computer was programmed for the Maxwell viscoelastic model with a compiler language. Cell wall creep was measured with a specially constituted apparatus and compared with that calculated by the simulation process. The results suggested that the creep can be reproduced by a computer simulation using the stress-relaxation parameters. Both creep and stress-relaxation properties of plant cell walls can be analyzed by using a single model.
authors: Laboratory of Biology, Tezukayama College, Gakuen-minami, Nara, Japan.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Yamamoto
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Sakurai
mesh_terms: D002473:Cell Wall / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007887:Fabaceae; D008954:Models, Biological; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D013314:Stress, Mechanical