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Thank you for the response. So the stress at which failure occurs may vary if alteration/remodeling occurs in an object. Makes sense! And yes, this is in relation to ventilation induced lung injury (specifically overdistension injury due to large tidal volumes)

Hi. I'm a physician trying to understand the micromechanics of lung injury due to overdistension. The basic idea is that overstretching of the plasma membrane of the lung epithelial cell causes "stress failure" --> i.e. plasma membrane rupture --> cell death. The concepts of stress, strain, and...