The Achilles tendon (AT) is responsible for running, jumping, and standing. The AT injuries
are very common in the population. In the adult population (21–60 years), the incidence of …

The main motivation for “hierarchical biomechanics” is that the wide variability of mechanical
properties encountered at the macroscopic scale may be traced back to just a few …

The micromechanics of composites with multiple phases of different shapes embedded into
a matrix phase, typically requires symmetrization strategies for their homogenized elasticity …

Stress and strain average rules are the key conceptual pillars of the wide field of continuum
micromechanics of materials. The aforementioned rules express that the spatial average of …

Purpose The human body is a complex structure. Its strength is ensured by the collagen
protein which exists under the form of fibers. The quantitative analysis of these fibers in …

Material properties of soft-tissue samples are often derived through uniaxial tensile testing.
For engineering materials, testing parameters (eg, sample geometries and clamping …

Abstract Background and Objective: The finite element method is widely used for studying
the intervertebral disc at the organ level due to its ability to model complex geometries. An …

At the microscale, various materials from biological tissues to nanoporous metals are formed
by networks of ligaments. Here we propose a highly efficient simulated annealing (SA) …

We here introduce an analytical model for a preclinical femur-implant compound structure.
This model extends standard Euler-Bernoulli-Saint-Venant theory by closed-form …

In this paper, a visco-hyperelastic model representing the mechanical behavior of the
human mandibular periosteum as an anisotropic and homogeneous material is identified …