Collagen fibres within fibrous soft biological tissues such as artery walls, cartilage,
myocardiums, corneas and heart valves are responsible for their anisotropic mechanical …

Mechanical testing of arterial tissue can provide unique insights into its behaviour. As
measurement and computational techniques continue to advance, new applications can be …

In the multidisciplinary field of heart research it is of utmost importance to identify accurate
myocardium material properties for the description of phenomena such as mechano-electric …

New experimental results on collagen fibre dispersion in human arterial layers have shown
that the dispersion in the tangential plane is more significant than that out of plane. A …

Soft biological tissues such as aortic walls can be viewed as fibrous composites assembled
by a ground matrix and embedded families of collagen fibres. Changes in the structural …

The complex network structure of elastin and collagen extracellular matrix (ECM) forms the
primary load bearing components in the arterial wall. The structural and mechanobiological …

In this work, we present a novel anisotropic data-driven hyperelasticity framework for the
constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues that allows direct incorporation of …

In the field of material modeling, there is a general trend to include more and more complex
phenomena in the modeling, making the models' theoretical derivation and numerical …

We present a novel approach allowing for a simple, fast and automated morphological
analysis of three-dimensional image stacks (z-stacks) featuring fibrillar structures from …

Among the three layers of the aortic wall, the media is primarily responsible for its
mechanical properties, but the adventitia prevents the aorta from overstretching and …