This paper reviews the advances made in recent years on modeling approaches and
experimental techniques to characterize the mechanical properties of human skin. The skin …

Soft biological tissues are complex materials with a large structural variety, with differences
in behavior, but with some common characteristics. Skin is an archetypal soft tissue which …

Many classic hyperelastic models fail to predict the stress responses of soft materials in
complex loading conditions with parameters calibrated through one simple test. To address …

The objective of this paper is to provide a review on some aspects of the mathematical and
computational modelling of skin biophysics, with special focus on constitutive theories based …

Anisotropy in the mechanical response of materials with microstructure is common and yet is
difficult to assess and model. To construct accurate response models given only stress …

Skin is the outermost layer of the body and acts as a primary protective barrier against
external agents such as heat, light, infection, and injury. Additionally, skin regulates the …

Closed-form constitutive models are currently the standard approach for describing soft
tissues' mechanical behavior. However, there are inherent pitfalls to this approach. For …

Computational implementation of physical and physiologically realistic constitutive models is
critical for numerical simulation of soft biological tissues in a variety of biomedical …

The nonlinear anisotropic properties of human skin tissue were investigated using bulge
testing. Full-field displacement data were obtained during testing of human skin tissues …

The study of skin biophysics has largely been driven by consumer goods, biomedical and
cosmetic industries which aim to design products that efficiently interact with the skin and/or …