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 …

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 objective of this paper is to provide a review on some aspects of the mathematical and
computational modelling of skin biophysics, with special focus on constitutive theories based …

We outline and review the mathematical framework for representing mechanical deformation
and contraction of the cardiac ventricles, and how this behaviour integrates with other …

For more than half a century, scientists have developed mathematical models to understand
the behavior of the human heart. Today, we have dozens of heart tissue models to choose …

In this paper a generalized anisotropic hyperelastic constitutive model for fiber-reinforced
materials is proposed. Collagen fiber alignment in biological tissues is taken into account by …

The function of right ventricle (RV) is recognized to play a key role in the development of
many cardiopulmonary disorders, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Given the …

Following the recent work of Bonet et al.(2015), this paper postulates a new convex multi-
variable variational framework for the analysis of Electro Active Polymers (EAPs) in the …

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 …

A thermodynamically consistent dissipative model is proposed to describe softening
phenomena in anisotropic materials. The model is based on a generalized polyconvex …