Vulnerable and stable atherosclerotic plaques are heterogeneous living materials with
peculiar mechanical behaviors depending on geometry, composition, loading and boundary …

Computational modelling of damage and rupture of non-connective and connective soft
tissues due to pathological and supra-physiological mechanisms is vital in the fundamental …

Many treatments for cardiovascular diseases include an endovascular insertion of stents or
stent grafts into arteries, a procedure which may cause high tissue stresses and even …

Although hundreds of samples obtained from ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA)
of patients undergoing elective surgical repair have already been characterized …

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 …

Damage to soft tissues in the human body has been investigated for applications in
healthcare, sports, and biomedical engineering. This paper reviews and classifies damage …

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

In the present work, a phase-field fracture model is developed to create an experimentally
validated, physically motivated, and computationally tractable framework to predict the …