The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

During the last 50 years, novel biomaterials and tissue engineering techniques have been
investigated to produce alternative vascular substitutes that recapitulate the unique elastic …

The constitutive behavior of polymeric materials is often modeled by finite linear viscoelastic
(FLV) or quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) models. These popular models are simplifications …

Constitutive relations are fundamental to the solution of problems in continuum mechanics,
and are required in the study of, for example, mechanically dominated clinical interventions …

Cardiovascular diseases have a major impact in Western countries. Mathematical models
and numerical simulations can aid the understanding of physiological and pathological …

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 …

This review article is concerned with the mathematical modelling of the mechanical
properties of the soft biological tissues that constitute the walls of arteries. Many important …

Abstract Development of a vascularized tissue is one of the key challenges for the
successful clinical application of tissue engineered constructs. Despite the significant efforts …

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 …

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 …