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 …

Head impacts leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) present a major health risk today,
projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. While finite element (FE) …

Characterizing the mechanical properties of white matter is important to understand and
model brain development and injury. With embedded aligned axonal fibers, white matter is …

Iron-filled magnetorheological polymers, when cured in the presence of a magnetic field,
result in having a transversely isotropic structure with iron particles forming chains along the …

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are soft phase-changing solids that exhibit large reversible
contractions upon heating, Goldstone-like soft modes, and resultant microstructural …

During morphogenesis, the shape of living species results from growth, stress relaxation,
and remodeling. When the growth does not generate any stress, the body shape only …

When an isotropic material is subject to a uniaxial tension, the principal strain transverse to
the direction of applied load is always negative. However, in fiber reinforced materials 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 …

For many organisms, shapes emerge from growth, which generates stresses, which in turn
can feedback on growth. In this review, theoretical methods to analyse various aspects of …

A multiphasic constitutive model of the skin that implicitly accounts for the process of intrinsic
(ie chronological) ageing via variation of the constitutive parameters is proposed. The …