Cartilage is one of the most essential tissues for healthy joint function and is compromised in
degenerative and traumatic joint diseases. There have been tremendous advances during …

With increasing life expectancies and the desire to maintain active lifestyles well into old
age, the impact of the debilitating disease osteoarthritis (OA) and its burden on healthcare …

New experimental results on collagen fibre dispersion in human arterial layers have shown
that the dispersion in the tangential plane is more significant than that out of plane. A …

Abstract The Holzapfel–Gasser–Ogden (HGO) model for anisotropic hyperelastic behaviour
of collagen fibre reinforced materials was initially developed to describe the elastic …

Cartilage is a multi-phase material composed of fluid and electrolytes (68–85% by wet
weight), proteoglycans (5–10% by wet weight), chondrocytes, collagen fibres and other …

Advances in computational mechanics, constitutive modeling, and techniques for subject-
specific modeling have opened the door to patient-specific simulation of the relationships …

We present an approach to model the dispersion of fiber and sheet orientations in the
myocardium. By utilizing structure parameters, an existing orthotropic and invariant‐based …

The function of articular cartilage depends on its structure and composition, sensitively
impaired in disease (eg osteoarthritis, OA). Responses of chondrocytes to tissue loading are …

The remarkable mechanical properties of cartilage derive from an interplay of isotropically
distributed, densely packed and negatively charged proteoglycans; a highly anisotropic and …

Fiber dispersion in collagenous soft tissues has an important influence on the mechanical
response, and the modeling of the collagen fiber architecture and its mechanics has …