Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) can involve some unfavorable complications such as
endoleaks or stent-graft (SG) migration. Such complications, resulting from the complex …

This work considers vascular stents with tubular geometry assumed to follow a periodic
arrangement of repeating unit cells. Structural and hemodynamic metrics are presented to …

Arterial stent deployment by balloon or self-expandable structure introduces shear forces
and radial forces that can damage or remove the endothelial cell layer. These factors can …

The heterogeneous, nonlinear, anisotropic material behavior of biological tissues makes
precise definition of an accurate constitutive model difficult. One possible solution to this …

ABSTRACT A mathematical model describing the advection-diffusion reaction of a
substance between two porous homogeneous media of different properties and dimensions …

In this work, a constitutive model is developed to consider the effect of arbitrary fiber
distribution on the swelling and tensile deformations of fiber-reinforced hydrogels. In the …

Soft tissues are mainly composed of organized biological media giving them an anisotropic
mechanical behavior. Soft tissues also have the ability to undergo large elastic reversible …

It is well known that, across all populations (based on geographic location, race, ethnicity,
age, and sex), coronary artery disease (CAD) is the single most common cause of death …

Background As a leading cause of death, worldwide, cardiovascular disease is of great
clinical importance. Among cardiovascular diseases, coronary artery disease (CAD) is a key …

It has been indicated that the content and structure of the elastin and collagen of the arterial
wall can subject to a significant alteration due to the atherosclerosis. Consequently, a high …