Modeling plaque fissuring and dissection during balloon angioplasty intervention

TC Gasser, GA Holzapfel - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2007 - Springer
Balloon angioplasty intervention is traumatic to arterial tissue. Fracture mechanisms such as
plaque fissuring and/or dissection occur and constitute major contributions to the lumen …

A numerical framework to model 3-D fracture in bone tissue with application to failure of the proximal femur

TC Gasser, GA Holzapfel - IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods …, 2007 - Springer
Bone can be regarded as a quasi-brittle material. Under excessive loading nonlinear
fracture zones may occur ahead the crack tips, where, typically, cohesive mechanisms are …