Constitutive framework for the modeling of damage in collagenous soft tissues with application to arterial walls

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 213-216, Issue , 2012, Pages 139-151

  Balzani, Daniel ^a   Brinkhues, Sarah ^a   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Arterial wall; Collagenous soft tissue; Damage hysteresis; Remanent strain; Strain energy

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; ARTERIAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL; COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGENOUS SOFT TISSUE; CYCLIC TENSION; DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION; DAMAGE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIBER DAMAGES; INTERNAL VARIABLES; MATERIAL MODELS; MICROSCOPIC DAMAGE; MODELING FRAMEWORKS; PHYSIOLOGICAL LEVELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL LOADINGS; REMANENT STRAIN; SOFT TISSUE; STRESS SOFTENING;

ANISOTROPY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRAIN ENERGY; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

EID: 84855768241     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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