Many soft tissues are naturally made of a matrix and fibres that present some privileged
directions. They are known to support large reversible deformations. The mechanical …

Understanding and predicting the mechanical behavior of myocardium under healthy and
pathophysiological conditions are vital to develo** novel cardiac therapies and promoting …

Since its coming of age in the mid 1960s, continuum biomechanics has contributed much to
our understanding of human health as well as to disease, injury, and their treatment …

The goals of this paper are (i) to re-examine the constitutive law for the description of the
(passive) highly nonlinear and anisotropic response of healthy elastic arteries introduced …

High-fidelity cardiac models using attribute-rich finite element based models have been
developed to a very mature stage. However, such finite-element based approaches remain …

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death in the western world. With
the current development of clinical diagnostics to more accurately measure the extent and …

In this paper, we show that the well known decomposition of a matrix into an orthogonal
matrix (Q) and a upper triangular matrix (R), can be used to develop a remarkably simple …

Constitutive laws that describe the mechanical responses of cardiac tissue under loading
hold the key to accurately model the biomechanical behaviour of the heart. There have been …

We describe an experimental method and apparatus for the estimation of constitutive
parameters of soft tissue using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), in particular for the …

Fiber reinforced structures are central to the form and function of biological tissues.
Hyperelastic, transversely isotropic material models are used widely in the modeling and …