Constitutive modelling of arteries

GA Holzapfel, RW Ogden - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Biomechanical relevance of the microstructure in artery walls with a focus on passive and active components

GA Holzapfel, RW Ogden - American Journal of Physiology …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The microstructure of arteries, consisting, in particular, of collagen, elastin, and vascular
smooth muscle cells, plays a very significant role in their biomechanical response during a …

Active stress vs. active strain in mechanobiology: constitutive issues

D Ambrosi, S Pezzuto - Journal of Elasticity, 2012 - Springer
Many biological tissues exhibit a non-standard continuum mechanics behavior: they are
able to modify their placement in absence of external loads. The activity of the muscles is …

Thermodynamically consistent orthotropic activation model capturing ventricular systolic wall thickening in cardiac electromechanics

S Rossi, T Lassila, R Ruiz-Baier, A Sequeira… - European Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
The complex phenomena underlying mechanical contraction of cardiac cells and their
influence in the dynamics of ventricular contraction are extremely important in understanding …

Characterization of arterial wall mechanical behavior and stresses from human clinical data

I Masson, P Boutouyrie, S Laurent, JD Humphrey… - Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper demonstrates the feasibility of material identification and wall stress computation
for human common carotid arteries based on non-invasive in vivo clinical data: dynamical …

Passive nonlinear elastic behaviour of skeletal muscle: experimental results and model formulation

B Calvo, A Ramírez, A Alonso, J Grasa, F Soteras… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The goal of this study was to characterize the passive elastic behaviour of muscle and
tendon tissues of rat tibialis anterior. For that purpose, tissue samples from 3 month old …

Electromechanical coupling in cardiac dynamics: the active strain approach

D Ambrosi, G Arioli, F Nobile, A Quarteroni - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2011 - SIAM
The coupling between cardiac mechanics and electric signaling is addressed in a
nonstandard framework in which the electrical potential dictates the active strain (not stress) …

A calcium-driven mechanochemical model for prediction of force generation in smooth muscle

SI Murtada, M Kroon, GA Holzapfel - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2010 - Springer
A new model for the mechanochemical response of smooth muscle is presented. The focus
is on the res-ponse of the actin–myosin complex and on the related generation of force (or …

[HTML][HTML] A 3D multi-scale skeletal muscle model to predict active and passive responses. Application to intra-abdominal pressure prediction

M Karami, H Zohoor, B Calvo, J Grasa - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Computational models have been used extensively to study the behavior of skeletal muscle
structures, however few of these models are able to evaluate their 3D active response using …

Mathematical modelling of active contraction in isolated cardiomyocytes

R Ruiz-Baier, A Gizzi, S Rossi… - … and Biology: a …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the interaction of intracellular calcium spatio-temporal variations with the self-
sustained contractions in cardiac myocytes. A consistent mathematical model is presented …