Many soft tissues are naturally made of a matrix and fibres that present some privileged
directions. They are known to support large reversible deformations. The mechanical …

The prevalence of prosthodontic treatment has been well recognized, and the need is
continuously increasing with the ageing population. While the oral mucosa plays a critical …

During severe impact conditions, brain tissue experiences a rapid and complex deformation,
which can be seen as a mixture of compression, tension and shear. Diffuse axonal injury …

In Part I of this paper a new metric, titled the “blade sharpness index” or “BSI”, for quantifying
the sharpness of a straight edge blade when cutting soft solids was derived from first …

Skeletal muscles, ligaments and tendons are typically assumed to be incompressible,
transversely isotropic, non-linearly hyperelastic materials. If one adopts the …

For homogeneous, isotropic, non-linearly elastic materials, the form of the homogeneous
deformation consistent with the application of a Cauchy shear stress is derived here for both …

A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons based
on the geometrical arrangement of their fibrils is derived. The distribution of the crimp angles …

Using a uniaxial deformation setup, we show that the free surface of an homogeneous
elastic material is unstable under compression: parallel grooves nucleate orthogonally to the …

Rubber components and soft biological tissues are often subjected to large bending
deformations while “in service”. The circumferential line elements on the inner face of a bent …

The modelling of off-axis simple tension experiments on transversely isotropic nonlinearly
elastic materials is considered. A testing protocol is proposed where normal force is applied …