Valvular heart diseases are complex disorders, varying in pathophysiological mechanism
and affected valve components. Understanding the effects of these diseases on valve …

The study of damage and rupture of soft tissues using a tensile testing system is essential to
understand the limits of mechanical behavior and loss of function in diseased tissues …

Experimental protocols are fundamental for quantifying the mechanical behaviour of soft
tissue. These data are crucial for advancing the understanding of soft tissue mechanics …

Numerical simulation of the heating stage of thermoplastics in thermoforming requires a
good knowledge of the behavior of the materials used. To this end, a study is being …

Although xenograft biomaterials have been used for decades in replacement heart valves,
they continue to face multiple limitations, including limited durability, mineralization, and …

Extensive biaxial mechanical testing of the atrioventricular heart valve leaflets can be
utilized to derive optimal parameters used in constitutive models which provide a …

This study concerns procedural aspects of planar biaxial experiments on aortic tissues that
have not been exhaustively addressed in the literature. The following questions are …

Planar biaxial testing offers a physiologically relevant approach for mechanically
characterizing thin deformable soft tissues, but often relies on erroneous assumptions of …

Several nonlinear and anisotropic constitutive models have been proposed to describe the
biomechanical properties of soft tissues, and reliably estimating the unknown parameters in …

Characterization of biomechanical properties of soft biological tissues is important to
understand the tissue mechanics and explore the biomechanics-related mechanisms of …