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 …

Soft biological tissues are complex materials with a large structural variety, with differences
in behavior, but with some common characteristics. Skin is an archetypal soft tissue which …

The objective of this paper is to provide a review on some aspects of the mathematical and
computational modelling of skin biophysics, with special focus on constitutive theories based …

Unlike common engineering materials, living matter can autonomously respond to
environmental changes. Living structures can grow stronger, weaker, larger, or smaller …

This study uses a recently developed phase-field approach to model fracture of arterial walls
with an emphasis on aortic tissues. We start by deriving the regularized crack surface to …

A non-local gradient-based damage formulation within a geometrically non-linear setting is
presented. The hyperelastic constitutive response at local material point level is governed by …

This work presents a recently developed phase-field model of fracture equipped with
anisotropic crack driving force to model failure phenomena in soft biological tissues at finite …

We review twelve invariant and dispersion-type anisotropic hyperelastic constitutive models
for soft biological tissues based on their fitting performance to various experimental data. To …

Spider silk fibers are protein materials that exhibit high strength and toughness thanks to a
unique microstructure. In this work, a microscopically motivated model that sheds light on the …

Fabric rubber composites have attracted great interests among researchers because of their
high specific strength and specific modulus. Develo** accurate constitutive models is still …