Thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) represent a critical health issue for which computational
models can significantly contribute to better understand the physiopathology. Among …

Endothelial cells are key players in the cardiovascular system. Among other things, they are
responsible for sprouting angiogenesis, the process of new blood vessel formation essential …

Constrained mixture models have successfully simulated many cases of growth and
remodeling in soft biological tissues. So far, extensions of these models have been …

Adverse effects of large artery stiffening are well established in the systemic circulation;
stiffening of the proximal pulmonary artery (PPA) and its sequelae are poorly understood …

The idea for this special issue entitled “Progress and future directions in soft tissue
mechanics” in the journal Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology is based on a …

Work on soft tissue constitutive modeling spans multiple decades. Much progress has been
made but, of course, there are many challenges that remain. This journal club post is not …