Optic nerve head (ONH) biomechanics is centrally involved in the pathogenesis of
glaucoma, a blinding ocular condition often characterized by elevation and fluctuation of the …

Hyperelastic models developed by Gent, Ogden, and Dobrynin are modified to include a
strain rate-dependent element. This strain rate dependence accounts for the breaking of …

Tendinopathy, degeneration of the tendon that leads to pain and dysfunction, is common in
both sports and occupational settings, but multi‐scale mechanisms for tendinopathy are still …

This study presents a framework for plasticity and elastoplastic damage mechanics by
treating materials as reactive solids whose internal composition evolves in response to …

Tendon's viscoelastic behaviors are important to the tissue mechanical function and cellular
mechanobiology. When loaded in longitudinal tension, tendons often have a large Poisson's …

Inelastic behaviors, such as softening, a progressive decrease in modulus before failure,
occur in tendon and are important aspects in degeneration and tendinopathy. These …

Damage in soft biological tissues are a major domain of study as tissues may either undergo
degradation with time or may experience in vivo failure during invasive procedures leading …

Introduction Strains and sprains of soft tissues, including tendons and ligaments, are
frequently occurring injuries. Musculoskeletal models show great promise in prediction and …

Aponeuroses are stiff sheath-like components of the muscle-tendon unit that play a vital role
in force transmission and thus locomotion. There is clear importance of the aponeurosis in …

A hypothesis that the optic nerve and the optic nerve sheath pull the optic disc and its
peripapillary regions is proposed and named “optic nerve tethering.” Although the optic …