Head impacts leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) present a major health risk today,
projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. While finite element (FE) …

Fabric rubber composites have attracted great interests among researchers because of their
high specific strength and specific modulus. Developing accurate constitutive models is still …

Characterizing the mechanical properties of white matter is important to understand and
model brain development and injury. With embedded aligned axonal fibers, white matter is …

Dynamic elastography, whether based on magnetic resonance, ultrasound, or optical
modalities, attempts to reconstruct quantitative maps of the viscoelastic properties of …

Achilles sub-tendons are materially and geometrically challenging structures that can nearly
undergo around 15% elongation from their pre-twisted initial states during physical activities …

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) has emerged as a sensitive imaging technique
capable of providing a quantitative understanding of neural microstructural integrity …

Fiber-reinforced biological soft tissues are often modeled as anisotropic hyperelastic
materials. Four strain invariants can be used to define a strain energy function for soft tissues …

In 1909, JH Poynting conducted a series of experiments on metal wires and found that
loaded wires lengthen when twisted. Thus to maintain a constant length in such …

Electrically driven dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are susceptible to an
electromechanical instability because of a positive feedback between the applied electric …

Magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) have gained significant attention in recent years due to
their wide range of engineering applications. This paper investigates the important interplay …