Elderly people perform more slowly movements of everyday life as rising from a chair,
walking, and climbing stairs. This is in the first place due to the loss of muscle contractile …

Almost all computer models of the musculoskeletal system represent muscle geometry using
a series of line segments. This simplification (i) limits the ability of models to accurately …

The objective of the present study is to determine the passive transverse mechanical
properties of skeletal muscle. Compression experiments were performed on four rat tibialis …

The present paper surveys recent developments in constitutive and computational modelling
of skeletal muscles, concerning mainly the generalization to two-and three-dimensional (2D …

This paper presents a three-dimensional finite element model of skeletal muscle which was
developed to simulate active and passive non-linear mechanical behaviours of the muscle …

The pelvic floor gives support to the organs in the abdominal cavity. Using the dataset made
public in (Janda et al. J. Biomech. 36 (6), pp. 749–757), we have reconstructed the geometry …

Understanding of the occlusal load distribution through the mid-facial skeleton in natural
dentition is essential because alterations in magnitude and/or direction of occlusal forces …

The human tongue is composed mainly of skeletal muscle tissue and has a complex
architecture. Its anatomy is characterised by interweaving yet distinct muscle groups. It is a …

Purpose: In order to clarify the role of the optic nerve (ON) as a load on ocular rotation, we
developed a finite element model (FEM) of incremental adduction induced by active …

Muscles exhibit highly complex, multi-scale architecture with thousands of muscle fibers,
each with different properties, interacting with each other and surrounding connective …