A porous media approach to finite deformation behaviour in soft tissues

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-170

  Meroi, E A ^a   Natali, A N ^b   Schrefler, B A ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Costruzione dell' Architettura   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Non linear analysis; Porous media; Tissue mechanics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; COUPLED EFFECT; COUPLED SYSTEMS; FINITE DEFORMATIONS; FLUID PHASIS; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; LOAD CARRYING; LOW-SPEED FLOW; MOTION SEGMENTS; MULTIPHASE APPROACH; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SOFT TISSUE; SOLID MATRIXES; TISSUE MECHANICS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; TISSUE;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0011714869     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255849908907985     Document Type: Article

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