... material properties of soft tissues. Confident of these advances, a method combining a freehand U.S. probe and a force sensor was developed in order to compute the hyperelastic constitutive parameters of the soft tissues of the thigh in both relaxed (R) and contracted (C) muscles' configurations. Seven...

...Ramesh Raghupathy; Colleen Witzenburg; Spencer P. Lake; Edward A. Sander; Victor H. Barocas In a previous work (Raghupathy and Barocas, 2010, “Generalized Anisotropic Inverse Mechanics for Soft Tissues,”J. Biomech. Eng., 132 (8), pp. 081006), a generalized anisotropic inverse mechanics method...

... the transport of a relatively large neutral species (negligible osmotic fluid flux) in highly deformable hydrated soft tissues and tissue-engineered materials. In conclusion, an ABAQUS -based PHEXPT theory and finite element model has been presented, which will find application in a number of coupled species...

...Uwe-Jens Görke; Hubert Günther; Thomas Nagel; Markus A. Wimmer The reaction of articular cartilage and other soft tissues to mechanical loads has been characterized by coupled hydraulic (H) and mechanical (M) processes. An enhanced biphasic material model is presented, which may be used to describe...

... appeared to be satisfactory for the soft tissues considered here ( 20 ) The mesh was created directly after the image segmentation, still using the MATLAB ® software ( 17 ), with a custom made routine. Then, the mesh was exported to ZEBULON ® . Mesh of the leg slice in the FE model...

...) level of the tissue space, through the meso-level of the whole tissue, to the macro (organ) one. Whereas micro-level RS seem to be present in all soft tissues, the existence of macro- and meso-level mechanisms are tissue and organ specific. The second concept introduced highlights the significance...

...M. Destrade; M. D. Gilchrist; D. A. Prikazchikov; G. Saccomandi When a block made of an elastomer is subjected to a large shear, its surface remains flat. When a block of biological soft tissue is subjected to a large shear, it is likely that its surface in the plane of shear will buckle...

... 2005 12 12 2005 biomechanics biological tissues viscoelasticity curve fitting proteins molecular biophysics creep testing elasticity stress-strain relations nonlinear viscoelasticity anisotropy ligament soft tissues time discretization The ligaments are complex...

.... Despite the indicated limitations, the proposed setup has a large potential for the local mechanical characterization of planar biological soft tissues. The combination of numerical and experimental tools provides a deeper insight into the structure-function...

...Eve Langelier; Daniel Dupuis; Michel Guillot; Francine Goulet; Denis Rancourt Precise geometric reconstruction is a valuable tool in the study of soft tissues biomechanics. Optical methods have been developed to determine the tissue cross section without mechanical contact with the specimen...