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Computers and Concrete
  Volume 25, Number 3, March 2020 , pages 205-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/cac.2020.25.3.205
 


Effect of external force on buckling of cytoskeleton intermediate filaments within viscoelastic media
Muhammad Taj, Muhammad Safeer, Muzamal Hussain, Muhammad N. Naeem, Manzoor Ahmad, Kamran Abbas, Abdul Q. Khan and Abdelouahed Tounsi

 
Abstract
    Cytoskeleton components in living cell bear large compressive force and are responsible in maintaining the cell shape. Actually these filaments are surrounded by viscoelastic media within the cell. This surrounding, viscoelastic media affects the buckling behavior of these filaments when external force is applied on these filaments by exerting continuous pressure in opposite directions to the incipient buckling of the filaments. In this article a mechanical model is applied to account the effects of this media on the buckling behavior of intermediate filaments network of cytoskeleton. The model immeasurably associates; filament\'s bending rigidity, adjacent system elasticity, and cytosol viscosity with buckling wavelength, buckling growth rate and buckling amplitude of the filaments.
 
Key Words
    intermediate filaments; viscous cytosol; Euler beam theory
 
Address
Muhammad Taj: Department of Mathematics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad 13100, Pakistan
Muhammad Safeer: Department of Mathematics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad 13100, Pakistan; 2Department of Mathematics University of Poonch, Rawalwkot 12350, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Muzamal Hussain: Department of Mathematics, Govt. College University Faisalabad, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Muhammad N. Naeem: Department of Mathematics, Govt. College University Faisalabad, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Manzoor Ahmad: Department of Mathematics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad 13100, Pakistan
Kamran Abbas: Department of Statistics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad 13100, Pakistan
Abdul Q. Khan: Department of Mathematics, The University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad 13100, Pakistan
Abdelouahed Tounsi: Materials and Hydrology Laboratory, University of Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria Faculty of Technology Civil Engineering Department, Algeria; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, 31261 Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
 

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