[HTML][HTML] Study of biaxial mechanical properties of the passive pig heart: material characterisation and categorisation of regional differences

F Nemavhola - International Journal of Mechanical and Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Regional mechanics of the heart is vital in the development of accurate computational
models for the pursuit of relevant therapies. Challenges related to heart dysfunctioning are …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of cross-directional and cross-wall variations of passive biaxial mechanical properties of rat myocardia

H Ngwangwa, F Nemavhola, T Pandelani, M Msibi… - Processes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heart myocardia are critical to the facilitation of heart pumping and blood circulating around
the body. The biaxial mechanical testing of the left ventricle (LV) has been extensively …

[PDF][PDF] Detailed structural assessment of healthy interventricular septum in the presence of remodeling infarct in the free wall–A finite element model

F Nemavhola - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Purpose Computational modelling may improve the fundamental understanding of various
mechanisms of diseases more particularly related to clinical challenges. In this study the …

Biaxial quantification of passive porcine myocardium elastic properties by region

F Nemavhola - Engineering Solid Mechanics, 2017 - m.growingscience.com
Considering accurate constitutive models is of the utmost importance to capture mechanical
response of soft tissue and biomedical materials under physiological loading conditions …

Passive biaxial tensile dataset of three main rat heart myocardia: left ventricle, mid-wall and right ventricle

F Nemavhola, H Ngwangwa, N Davies, T Franz - 2021 - preprints.org
This article presents raw data of biaxial tensile measurements of rat heart passive
myocardium conducted in lab scale environment. The passive myocardium of the rat was …

Fibrotic infarction on the LV free wall may alter the mechanics of healthy septal wall during passive filling

F Nemavhola - Bio-medical materials and engineering, 2017 - content.iospress.com
The effect of myocardial infarction on the global functioning of the heart is well known. Less
is understood regarding the effect of LV fibrotic infarction on the cardiac mechanics of the …

[HTML][HTML] Применение гиперупругих моделей для описания поведения разных областей овечьего сердца на основе двухосных механических испытаний

Ф Немавхола, Т Панделани… - Российский журнал …, 2022 - cyberleninka.ru
Сердечная недостаточность остается одной из самых распространенных причин
смерти во всем мире, особенно среди людей старше 60 лет. Чтобы разработать и …

The application of standard nonlinear solid material models in modelling the tensile behaviour of the supraspinatus tendon

HM Ngwangwa, T Pandelani, F Nemavhola - 2021 - preprints.org
Tendons transmit forces from muscles to bones through joints. Typically, tendons and
muscles work together to innovate a particular type of motion. Therefore, in order for the …

Biomechanical behaviour and hyperelastic model parameters identification of sheep omasum

L Lebea, H Ngwangwa, T Pandelani, F Nemavhola - 2021 - researchsquare.com
The function of the omasum is incompletely understood; however, the omasum plays an
important role in the transport of appropriately sized feed particles from the reticulorumen to …

An investigation of uniaxial mechanical properties of excised sheep heart muscle fibre–fitting of different hyperelastic constitutive models

F Nemavhola, HM Ngwangwa, T Pandelani - 2021 - preprints.org
This paper presents the investigation of biomechanical behaviour of sheep heart fibre using
uniaxial tests in various samples. Non-linear Finite Element models (FEA) that are utilised in …