A mesostructurally-based anisotropic continuum model for biological soft tissues-Decoupled invariant formulation

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1637-1657

  Limbert, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropic hyperelasticity; Collagen; Constitutive model; Entropic elasticity; Multi scale modelling; Skin; Soft tissue; Tropocollagen

Indexed keywords

ENTROPIC ELASTICITY; HYPER-ELASTICITY; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; SOFT TISSUE; TROPOCOLLAGEN;

ANISOTROPY; COLLAGEN; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELASTICITY; HISTOLOGY; MEDICINE; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUE; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC FIBER; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; KINEMATICS; MESOSTRUCTURALLY BASED DECOUPLED INVARIANT CONTINUUM MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HARDNESS TESTS; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RABBITS; SHEAR STRENGTH; SKIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 81255160642     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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