Computational modelling of damage and rupture of non-connective and connective soft
tissues due to pathological and supra-physiological mechanisms is vital in the fundamental …

Damage to soft tissues in the human body has been investigated for applications in
healthcare, sports, and biomedical engineering. This paper reviews and classifies damage …

Constitutive modeling is a cornerstone for stress analysis of mechanical behaviors of
biological soft tissues. Recently, it has been shown that machine learning (ML) techniques …

The patient-specific biomechanical analysis of the aorta requires the quantification of the in
vivo mechanical properties of individual patients. Current inverse approaches have …

The impact of outflow boundary conditions on the results of numerical simulations of the flow
inside ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms is investigated. The adopted outflow conditions …

Thoracic aortic aneurysms are life-threatening lesions that afflict young and old individuals
alike. They frequently associate with genetic mutations and are characterized by reduced …

Personalized computational simulations have emerged as a vital tool to understand the
biomechanical factors of a disease, predict disease progression, and design personalized …

Nowadays the most common approach to model elastic behavior at large strains is through
hyperelasticity. Hyperelastic models usually specify the shape of the stored energy function …

Mechanical testing of arterial tissue can provide unique insights into its behaviour. As
measurement and computational techniques continue to advance, new applications can be …

Mechanical characterization of soft biological tissue is becoming more and more prevalent.
Despite the growing use of planar biaxial testing for soft tissue characterization, testing …