A universal model for the elastic, inelastic and active behaviour of soft biological tissues

GAMM Mitteilungen

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-236

  Itskov, M ^a   Ehret, A E ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active behaviour. msc (2000); Anisotropy; Inelastic behaviour; Soft biological tissues

Indexed keywords

EID: 73849138959     PISSN: 09367195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gamm.200910018     Document Type: Article

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