ANNE HOGER

Professor of Mechanics

Point of Contact Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0411 E-Mail: ahoger@ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 534-2169

Research Areas

Continuum and solid mechanics, applied mathematics, biomechanics.

Current Research Topics

• The development of a theory of growth for soft biological tissue.
• Constitutive theory for residually stressed materials.
• Formulation of constitutive equations for biological materials.

Representative publications

B.E. Johnson and A. Hoger 1995 Formulation of constitutive equations for residually stressed materials by use of a virtual configuration. Journal of Elasticity, 41: 177-215.

J. C. Hansen, S. Chien, R. Skalak, and A. Hoger, "Influence of network topology on the elasticity of the red blood cell membrane skeleton," Biophysical Journal, 72:2369-2381, 1997.

S. Forsyth, A. Hoger, and J. Hoger, "Molecular cloning and expression of a bovine endothelial inward rectifier potassium channel," FEBS Letters, 409, 277-282, 1997.

A. Hoger, "Virtual configurations and constitutive equations for residually stressed bodies with material symmetry," Journal of Elasticity, 48:125-144, 1997.

J. C. Hansen, S. Chien, R. Skalak, and A. Hoger, "Spectrin properties and the elasticity of the red blood cell membrane skeleton," Biorheology, 34:327-348, 1997.

B. Johnson and A. Hoger, "The use of strain energy to quantify the effect of residual stress on mechanical behavior," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 4:447-470, 1998.

A. Hoger, "A second order constitutive theory for hyperelastic materials," International Journal of Solids and Structures, 36:847-868, 1999.

Y.-C. Chen and A. Hoger, " Constitutive functions of elastic materials in finite growth and deformation," Journal of Elasticity, 59:175-193, 2000,

S. M. Klisch, T. J. Van Dyke, and A. Hoger, "A theory of volumetric growth for compressible elastic biological materials," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 6:551-575, 2001.

T. J. Van Dyke and A. Hoger, "A new method for predicting the opening angle for soft tissues," ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 124(4):347-54, 2002.

J. H. Hoger, V. Ilyin, S. Forsyth, and A. Hoger, "The endothelial ion channel Kir2.1 current is regulated by shear stress," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99:7780-7785, 2002.

V. A. Lubarda, A. Hoger, "On the mechanics of solids with a growing mass," International Journal of Solids and Structures, 39:4627 –64, 2002.

S. M. Klisch and A. Hoger, "Volumetric growth of theromoelastic materials and mixtures," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 8:377-402, 2003.

A. Hoger, T. J. Van Dyke, and V. A. Lubarda, "Symmetrization of the growth deformation and velocity gradients in residually stressed biomaterials," Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 55:848-860, 2004.

S. M. Klisch, R. L. Sah, and A. Hoger, "A cartilage growth mixture model for infinitesimal strains: solutions of boundary-value problems related to in vitro growth experiments," Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 3: 209-223, 2005.