Constitutive Modelling of Brain Tissue for Prediction of Traumatic Brain Injury

Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 41-67

  van Dommelen, J A W ^a   Hrapko, M ^a   Peters, G W M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constitutive Model; Head Model; Store Energy Function; Strain Energy Function; Traumatic Brain Injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044275899     PISSN: 18682006     EISSN: 18682014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/8415_2010_16     Document Type: Chapter

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