A contemporary look at biomechanical models of myocardium

R Avazmohammadi, JS Soares, DS Li… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and predicting the mechanical behavior of myocardium under healthy and
pathophysiological conditions are vital to developing novel cardiac therapies and promoting …

Neural network approaches for soft biological tissue and organ simulations

MS Sacks, S Motiwale… - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Given the functional complexities of soft tissues and organs, it is clear that computational
simulations are critical in their understanding and for the rational basis for the development …

A viscoelastic constitutive model for human femoropopliteal arteries

W Zhang, M Jadidi, SA Razian, GA Holzapfel… - Acta biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
High failure rates present challenges for surgical and interventional therapies for peripheral
artery disease of the femoropopliteal artery (FPA). The FPA's demanding biomechanical …

Simulating the time evolving geometry, mechanical properties, and fibrous structure of bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets under cyclic loading

W Zhang, S Motiwale, MC Hsu, MS Sacks - Journal of the mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, the most common replacement heart valve design is the 'bioprosthetic'heart valve
(BHV), which has important advantages in that it does not require permanent anti …

On the AIC-based model reduction for the general Holzapfel–Ogden myocardial constitutive law

D Guan, F Ahmad, P Theobald, S Soe, X Luo… - … and Modeling in …, 2019 - Springer
Constitutive laws that describe the mechanical responses of cardiac tissue under loading
hold the key to accurately model the biomechanical behaviour of the heart. There have been …

Contribution of nascent cohesive fiber-fiber interactions to the non-linear elasticity of fibrin networks under tensile load

S Britton, O Kim, F Pancaldi, Z Xu, RI Litvinov… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Fibrin is a viscoelastic proteinaceous polymer that determines the deformability and integrity
of blood clots and fibrin-based biomaterials in response to biomechanical forces. Here, a …

Leveraging code generation for transparent immersogeometric fluid–structure interaction analysis on deforming domains

GE Neighbor, H Zhao, M Saraeian, MC Hsu… - Engineering with …, 2023 - Springer
Code generation technology has been transformative to the field of numerical partial
differential equations (PDEs), allowing domain scientists and engineers to automatically …

Isogeometric finite element‐based simulation of the aortic heart valve: Integration of neural network structural material model and structural tensor fiber architecture …

W Zhang, G Rossini, D Kamensky… - … journal for numerical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The functional complexity of native and replacement aortic heart valves (AVs) is well known,
incorporating such physical phenomenons as time‐varying non‐linear anisotropic soft tissue …

Explicit consideration of fiber recruitment in vascular constitutive formulation using beta functions

X He, J Lu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
Constitutive models are of fundamental importance for describing the mechanical behavior
of vascular tissues. In this article, we present a constitutive model that explicitly accounts for …

Numerical analysis of stenoses severity and aortic wall mechanics in patients with supravalvular aortic stenosis

T Lone, A Alday, R Zakerzadeh - Computers in biology and medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
Supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) is an aortic malformation characterized by a narrowing
of the ascending aorta, resulting in abnormal hemodynamics and pressure drop across the …