The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

Soft structures are capable of undergoing reversible large strains and deformations when
facing different types of loadings. Due to the limitations of linear elastic models, researchers …

Constitutive relations are fundamental to the solution of problems in continuum mechanics,
and are required in the study of, for example, mechanically dominated clinical interventions …

Polyester elastomers are soft, biodegradable and biocompatible and are commonly used in
various biomedical applications, especially in tissue engineering. These synthetic polyesters …

In the multidisciplinary field of heart research it is of utmost importance to identify accurate
myocardium material properties for the description of phenomena such as mechano-electric …

Atherosclerosis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and a thorough
understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms is crucial for the …

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 motions of the heart are regulated by electrophysiological signals, which can be
monitored and altered by bioelectronic devices for the diagnosis and treatment of …

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 …

This review article is concerned with the mathematical modelling of the mechanical
properties of the soft biological tissues that constitute the walls of arteries. Many important …