Collagen fibres within fibrous soft biological tissues such as artery walls, cartilage,
myocardiums, corneas and heart valves are responsible for their anisotropic mechanical …

Recently, micro-sphere-based methods derived from the angular integration approach have
been used for excluding fibres under compression in the modelling of soft biological tissues …

New experimental results on collagen fibre dispersion in human arterial layers have shown
that the dispersion in the tangential plane is more significant than that out of plane. A …

Modeling of connective tissues often includes collagen fibers explicitly as one of the
components. These fibers can be oriented in many directions; therefore, several studies …

Due to their intrinsic complexity, it is not easy to model the mechanical behaviour of
biomaterials. Despite the challenges they faced, some researchers have presented …

Structurally motivated material models may provide increased insights into the underlying
mechanics and physics of arteries under physiological loading conditions. We propose a …

In view of a more realistic description of the spatial distribution of the collagen fibers in soft
biological tissues, for example the human cornea, we propose a material model alternative …

Cartilage is a hydrated soft tissue whose solid matrix consists of negatively charged
proteoglycans enmeshed within a fibrillar collagen network. Though many aspects of …

In the past years, soft-tissue modelling research has seen substantial developments, a
significant part of which can be ascribed to the refinement of numerical techniques, such as …

We have developed a method for measuring fiber kinematics in two-dimensional soft
collagenous tissues. The technique combines small-angle light scattering (SALS) and …