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 …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

The use of replacement heart valves continues to grow due to the increased prevalence of
valvular heart disease resulting from an ageing population. Since bioprosthetic heart valves …

Data-driven methods are becoming an essential part of computational mechanics due to
their advantages over traditional material modeling. Deep neural networks are able to learn …

An approach is proposed that allows the determination of material models from uniaxial tests
and histostructural data including fiber orientation of the tissue. A combination of neo …

The goals of this paper are (i) to re-examine the constitutive law for the description of the
(passive) highly nonlinear and anisotropic response of healthy elastic arteries introduced …

Through mechanobiological control of the extracellular matrix, and hence local stiffness,
smooth muscle cells of the media and fibroblasts of the adventitia play important roles in …

In a recent paper we examined the loss of ellipticity and its interpretation in terms of fiber
kinking and other instability phenomena in respect of a fiber-reinforced incompressible …

Numerical simulations of the anisotropic mechanical properties of soft tissues and tissue-
derived biomaterials using accurate constitutive models remain an important and …

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 …