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 …

The effectiveness of a cardiovascular stent depends on many factors, such as its ability to
sustain the compression applied by the vessel wall, minimal longitudinal contraction when it …

Soft tissues are mainly composed of organized biological media giving them an anisotropic
mechanical behavior. Soft tissues also have the ability to undergo large elastic reversible …

Many materials such as wood, as well as rigid and flexible foams, exhibit transverse
isotropic or even anisotropic mechanical properties in terms of their elastic and inelastic …

The anisotropic, non-linear elastic behavior of biological soft tissue is typically accounted for
by the hypothesis of hyperelasticity, ie, the existence of an elastic potential. Fung-type …

This article describes uniaxial compression tests on a melt-extruded closed-cell low-density
polyethylene foam. The stress–strain response shows that the mechanical behaviour of the …

The aim of this study was to characterise the mechanical behaviour of Cooper's ligaments.
Such ligaments are collagenous breast tissue that create a three-dimensional structure over …

Biomechanical modelling of human breast tissues has been widely studied for various
medical applications such as surgical procedure training, pre-operative planning, diagnosis …

This paper describes uniaxial compression tests on a melt-extruded closed-cell Low-Density
Polyethylene (LDPE) foam. The stress-strain response shows the mechanical behaviour of …

The polyurethane, which was the subject of the constitutive research presented in the paper,
was based on oligocarbonate diols Desmophen C2100 produced by Bayer®. The …