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 …

The elastic strain energy potential for nonlinear fibre-reinforced materials is customarily
obtained by superposition of the potentials of the matrix and of each family of fibres …

This paper presents a composites-based hyperelastic constitutive model for soft tissue. Well
organized soft tissue is treated as a composite in which the matrix material is embedded with …

A fully three-dimensional anisotropic elastic model for vascular tissue modelling is
presented here. The underlying strain energy density function is assumed to additively …

In the present paper, we consider a class of constitutive models based on numerical
integration on the unit sphere. The directional behaviour of the quadrature schemes and its …

This work presents a method for computing the averaged free energy and constitutive
relations in hyperelastic material models with distributed fibres, as they apply to soft fibre …

The mechanical behaviour of an incompressible neo-Hookean material directionally
reinforced with a generalised neo-Hookean fibre is examined in the finite deformation …

A constitutive framework is provided for the characterization of the mechanical behavior of
colonic tissues, as a fundamental tool for the development of numerical models of the …

In this paper a hyperelastic constitutive model is developed for neo-Hookean composites
with aligned continuous cylindrical pores in the finite elasticity regime. Although the matrix is …

An anisotropic damage model for soft fibered tissue is presented in this paper, using a multi-
scale scheme and focusing on the directionally dependent behavior of these materials. For …