Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

Approaches to solving viscoelastic problems have received extensive attention in recent
decades as viscoelastic materials have been widely applied in various fields. An overview of …

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

Elastography researchers have utilized several rheological models to characterize soft
tissue viscoelasticity over the past thirty years. Due to the frequency-dependent behavior of …

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a progressive disease that disrupts the mechanical homeostasis
of the lung extracellular matrix (ECM). These effects are particularly relevant in the lung …

Understanding the biomechanics of the heart in health and disease plays an important role
in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. The use of computational biomechanical …

Biomechanics plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of pathological
conditions of the heart. Computational models are paving the way for personalized …

Residual stress is thought to play a critical role in modulating stress distributions in soft
biological tissues and in maintaining the mechanobiological stress environment of cells …

Due to its viscoelastic properties, the aorta aids in dampening blood pressure pulsatility. At
the level of resistance-arteries, the pulsatile flow will be transformed into a continuous flow to …

Objective. The mechanical behaviour of soft tissue is influenced by its elastic and viscous
characteristics. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop a validated method to …