Layer-specific damage experiments and modeling of human thoracic and abdominal aortas with non-atherosclerotic intimal thickening

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-106

  Weisbecker, Hannah ^a   Pierce, David M ^a   Regitnig, Peter ^b   Holzapfel, Gerhard A ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Constitutive modeling; Damage; Human aorta; Strain energy function; Supra physiological loading

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTIC TISSUE; ARTERIAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; COLLAGEN FIBER; DAMAGE; DAMAGE ACCUMULATION; DAMAGE MODEL; DATA FITS; ENDOVASCULAR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN AORTA; HUMAN TISSUES; INTIMAL THICKENINGS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATRIX MATERIALS; PRE-CONDITIONING; STENT GRAFTS; STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; TISSUE DAMAGE; TISSUE STRESS; UNIAXIAL EXTENSION;

CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE;

LOADING;

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSION; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 84861712248     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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