Constitutive modelling of arteries

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 466, Issue 2118, 2010, Pages 1551-1597

  Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,b   Ogden, Ray W ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arterial wall mechanics; Artery layers; Fibre reinforced materials; Fibrous biological tissues; Finite elasticity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ARTERIAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL; ARTERIAL WALL MECHANICS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; COLLAGEN FIBRES; CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING; CYLINDRICAL TUBES; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELASTIC STRAIN; ELASTICITY THEORY; FINITE ELASTICITY; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL MODELLING; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; REINFORCED MATERIAL; SMOOTH MUSCLES; SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS;

TISSUE;

EID: 77953418030     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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