Mechanical testing of arterial tissue can provide unique insights into its behaviour. As
measurement and computational techniques continue to advance, new applications can be …

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) results in increased right ventricular (RV)
afterload and ventricular remodeling. Sacubitril/valsartan (sac/val) is a dual acting drug …

High failure rates present challenges for surgical and interventional therapies for peripheral
artery disease of the femoropopliteal artery (FPA). The FPA's demanding biomechanical …

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 …

Bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs), derived from glutaraldehyde crosslinked (GLUT) porcine
aortic valve leaflets or bovine pericardium (BP), are used to replace defective heart valves …

Mechanical characterization of soft biological tissue is becoming more and more prevalent.
Despite the growing use of planar biaxial testing for soft tissue characterization, testing …

In recent years, the industry's responsibility to join in sustainable manufacturing becomes
huge, while innovating sustainability has been a new trend. Industrial enterprises are …

Located on the right side of the heart, the tricuspid valve (TV) prevents blood backflow from
the right ventricle to the right atrium. Similar to other cardiac valves, quantification of TV …

Collagen fibers are the main load carrier in the mitral valve (MV) leaflets. Their orientation
and dispersion are an important factor for the mechanical behavior. Most recent studies of …

Heterogeneities in structure and stress within heart valve leaflets are of significant concern
to their functional physiology, as they affect how the tissue constituents remodel in response …