Soft biological tissues are complex materials with a large structural variety, with differences
in behavior, but with some common characteristics. Skin is an archetypal soft tissue which …

Constitutive models are important to biomechanics for two key reasons. First, constitutive
modelling is an essential component of characterizing tissues' mechanical properties for …

Mechanical behavior of materials with granular microstructures is confounded by unique
features of their grain-scale mechano-morphology, such as the tension–compression …

GIBBON, which loosely stands for Geometry and Image-Based Bioengineering add-ON, is a
MATLAB® toolbox providing a single open-source framework for many aspects of …

We introduce a general multi-material topology optimization framework for large deformation
problems that effectively handles an arbitrary number of candidate hyperelastic materials …

Although the socket is critical in a prosthetic system for a person with limb amputation, the
methods of its design are largely artisanal. A roadblock for a repeatable and quantitative …

Nowadays the most common approach to model elastic behavior at large strains is through
hyperelasticity. Hyperelastic models usually specify the shape of the stored energy function …

We propose a decomposition of constitutive relations into crack-driving and persistent
portions, specifically designed for materials with anisotropic/orthotropic behavior in the …

The computational simulation of pathological conditions and surgical procedures, for
example the removal of cancerous tissue, can contribute crucially to the future of medicine …

In this paper, the dynamic behavior of bovine brain tissue, measured from in-vitro
unconfined compression tests, is examined and represented through a viscoelastic biphasic …