Structural and mechanical adaptations of right ventricle free wall myocardium to pressure overload

MR Hill, MA Simon, D Valdez-Jasso, W Zhang… - Annals of biomedical …, 2014 - Springer
Right ventricular (RV) failure in response to pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a severe
disease that remains poorly understood. PH-induced pressure overload leads to changes in …

Emerging brain morphologies from axonal elongation

MA Holland, KE Miller, E Kuhl - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2015 - Springer
Understanding the characteristic morphology of our brain remains a challenging, yet
important task in human evolution, developmental biology, and neurosciences …

Numerical methods for fluid–structure interaction models of aortic valves

G Marom - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2015 - Springer
In the recent years, fluid structure interaction (FSI) models of the aortic valve and root have
become increasingly common for two main reasons. The medical reason is that millions of …

Tensile behavior and structural characterization of pig dermis

A Pissarenko, W Yang, H Quan, KA Brown, A Williams… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Skin, the outermost layer of the body, fulfills a broad range of functions, protecting internal
organs from damage and infection, while regulating the body's temperature and water …

Quantitative assessment of collagen fibre orientations from two-dimensional images of soft biological tissues

AJ Schriefl, AJ Reinisch… - Journal of The …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this work, we outline an automated method for the extraction and quantification of material
parameters characterizing collagen fibre orientations from two-dimensional images …

Nonlinear elasticity of biological tissues with statistical fibre orientation

S Federico, TC Gasser - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The elastic strain energy potential for nonlinear fibre-reinforced materials is customarily
obtained by superposition of the potentials of the matrix and of each family of fibres …

Impact of uncertainties in outflow boundary conditions on the predictions of hemodynamic simulations of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

A Boccadifuoco, A Mariotti, S Celi, N Martini… - Computers & …, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of outflow boundary conditions on the results of numerical simulations of the flow
inside ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms is investigated. The adopted outflow conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal experimental studies of the passive mechanical behavior of human aortas: current approaches and future directions

A Pukaluk, G Sommer, GA Holzapfel - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and include, among
others, critical conditions of the aortic wall. Importantly, such critical conditions require …

Anisotropic fractional viscoelastic constitutive models for human descending thoracic aortas

M Amabili, P Balasubramanian, I Breslavsky - Journal of the mechanical …, 2019 - Elsevier
The generalized fractional Maxwell model, formulated for hyperelastic material within the
framework of the nonlinear viscoelasticity with internal variables, is applied to identify …

Automatic generation of interpretable hyperelastic material models by symbolic regression

R Abdusalamov, M Hillgärtner… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we present a new procedure to automatically generate interpretable
hyperelastic material models. This approach is based on symbolic regression which …