The biomechanics of arterial elastin

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 288-296

  Gundiah, Namrata ^a   Ratcliffe, Mark B ^c,d   Pruitt, Lisa A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL ELASTINS; AXIAL DIRECTIONS; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS; ENTROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHMS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTIONS; MECHANICAL TESTS; ORTHOTROPIC MATERIALS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELS; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS; UNKNOWN COEFFICIENTS;

BIOMECHANICS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HISTOLOGY; STRAIN ENERGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GLYCOPROTEINS;

ELASTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ENTROPY; HEART MUSCLE; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AORTA; ARTERIES; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE;

EID: 61449243811     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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