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 …

Heart valves (HVs) are fluidic control components of the heart that ensure unidirectional
blood flow during the cardiac cycle. However, this description does not adequately describe …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

Constitutive modeling is a cornerstone for stress analysis of mechanical behaviors of
biological soft tissues. Recently, it has been shown that machine learning (ML) techniques …

Data-driven methods are becoming an essential part of computational mechanics due to
their advantages over traditional material modeling. Deep neural networks are able to learn …

Due to the increasing number of heart valve diseases, there is an urgent clinical need for off-
the-shelf tissue engineered heart valves. While significant progress has been made toward …

Computational modeling of heart valve dynamics incorporating both fluid dynamics and
valve structural responses has been challenging. In this study, we developed a novel fully …

The mechanical testing of anisotropic nonlinearly elastic solids is a topic of considerable
and increasing interest. The results of such testing are important, in particular, for the …

Valvular heart disease has recently become an increasing public health concern due to the
high prevalence of valve degeneration in aging populations. For patients with severely …

In this paper, we present a new approach for the bi-axial characterization of in vitro human
arteries and we prove its feasibility on an example. The specificity of the approach is that it …