Many soft tissues are naturally made of a matrix and fibres that present some privileged
directions. They are known to support large reversible deformations. The mechanical …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

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

The mechanical response of some fiber-reinforced incompressible non-linearly elastic solids
is examined under homogeneous deformation. In particular, the materials under …

The effect of directional reinforcing in generating qualitative changes in the mechanical
response of a base neo-Hookean material is examined in the context of homogenous …

In a recent paper we examined the loss of ellipticity and its interpretation in terms of fiber
kinking and other instability phenomena in respect of a fiber-reinforced incompressible …

Material instabilities in fiber-reinforced nonlinearly elastic solids are examined under plane
deformation. In particular, the materials under consideration are isotropic nonlinearly elastic …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are biosourced chiral nanorods that can form stable colloidal
suspensions able to spontaneously assemble above a critical concentration into a …

Cylindrical tubes and membranes are universal structural elements found in biology and
engineering over a wide range of scales. Working in the framework of nonlinear elasticity …

This work presents a new constitutive model for the effective response of fiber-reinforced
elastomers at finite strains. The matrix and fiber phases are assumed to be incompressible …