The mechanical response of a homogeneous isotropic linearly elastic material can be fully
characterized by two physical constants, the Young's modulus and the Poisson's ratio, which …

The Ogden model is often considered as a standard model in the literature for application to
the deformation of brain tissue. Here, we show that, in some of those applications, the use of …

Experiments on brain samples under multiaxial loading have shown that human brain tissue
is both extremely soft when compared to other biological tissues and characterized by a …

A great variety of models can describe the nonlinear response of rubber to uniaxial tension.
Yet an in-depth understanding of the successive stages of large extension is still lacking. We …

During severe impact conditions, brain tissue experiences a rapid and complex deformation,
which can be seen as a mixture of compression, tension and shear. Diffuse axonal injury …

In contemporary elasticity theory, the strain–energy function predominantly relies on the first
invariant I 1 of the deformation tensor; a practice that has been influenced by models derived …

Motivated by recent experiments on biopolymer gels whereby the reverse of the usual
(positive) Poynting effect was observed, we investigate the effect of the so-called 'adscititious …

We investigate a family of isotropic volumetric-isochoric decoupled strain energies F ↦ W_
eH (F):= W _ eH (U):=\left {μ ke^ k ‖ dev _n U ‖^ 2+ κ 2 ke^ k tr (\log U)^ 2 & if\det F> …

Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism affect 300,000–600,000 patients each year
in the US. To better understand the highly mechanical pathophysiology of pulmonary …

Simple shear presents a local material structure–property relationship and plays an
important role in the development of material design, mechanical modeling, and …