The abdominal aorta (AA) in older individuals can develop an aneurysm, which is of
increasing concern in our ageing population. The structural integrity of the ageing aortic …

Complementary advances in medical imaging, vascular biology and biomechanics promise
to enable computational modelling of abdominal aortic aneurysms to play increasingly …

The biomechanical response of normal and pathologic human abdominal aortic tissue to
uniaxial loading conditions is insufficient for the characterization of its three-dimensional …

Background: The biomechanical behavior of the human abdominal aorta has been studied
with great interest primarily due to its propensity to develop such maladies as atherosclerotic …

Soft biological tissues such as aortic walls can be viewed as fibrous composites assembled
by a ground matrix and embedded families of collagen fibres. Changes in the structural …

Static and dynamic mechanical instabilities were previously suggested, and then rejected,
as mediators of aneurysmal development, which leaves open the question of the underlying …

The paper provides a deepened insight into the role of anisotropy in the analysis of residual
stresses in arteries. Residual deformations are modelled following Holzapfel and Ogden …

A better understanding of the inherent properties of vascular tissue to adapt to its
mechanical environment is crucial to improve the predictability of biomechanical …

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are characterized by significant changes in the
architecture of the aortic wall, notably, loss of functional elastin and smooth muscle. Because …

Abstract Knowledge of the biomechanical behavior of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) as
compared to nonaneurysmal aorta may provide information on the natural history of this …