Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

Constitutive relations are fundamental to the solution of problems in continuum mechanics,
and are required in the study of, for example, mechanically dominated clinical interventions …

Active camouflage is widely recognized as a soft-tissue feature, and yet the ability to
integrate adaptive coloration and tissuelike mechanical properties into synthetic materials …

In the multidisciplinary field of heart research it is of utmost importance to identify accurate
myocardium material properties for the description of phenomena such as mechano-electric …

At autopsy, 13 nonstenotic human left anterior descending coronary arteries [71.5±7.3
(mean±SD) yr old] were harvested, and related anamnesis was documented …

The established method of polarized microscopy in combination with a universal stage is
used to determine the layer-specific distributed collagen fibre orientations in 11 human non …

Slow, large deformations of human brain tissue—accompanying cranial vault deformation
induced by positional plagiocephaly, occurring during hydrocephalus, and in the …

Fracture of composites consisting of isotropic matrix and anisotropic fibers is an essential
problem in many engineering applications. The computational simulation of such a fracture …

The main goal of this contribution is to provide a simple method for constructing transversely
isotropic polyconvex functions suitable for the description of biological soft tissues. The …

An approach is proposed that allows the determination of material models from uniaxial tests
and histostructural data including fiber orientation of the tissue. A combination of neo …