Abstract: A quasilinear viscoelastic model was used to develop relaxation and creep forms for a constitutive law for soft tissues. Combined relaxation and cyclic test data as well as preconditioned and ...

Abstract: A “porohyperelastic” (PHE) material model is described and the theoretical frame-work presented that allows identification of the necessary material properties functions for soft arterial tissues. ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional finite element model for a poroelastic medium has been coupled with a least squares parameter estimation method for the purpose of assessing material properties based on ...

Abstract: A field theory is presented for the study of swelling in soft tissue structures that are modeled as poroelastic materials. As a first approximation, soft tissues are assumed to be linear ...

Abstract: A combined experimental and analytical approach was used to determine the history-dependent viscoelastic properties of normal articular cartilage in tension. Specimens along the surface split line ...

Abstract: Analytical and finite element models (FEMs) were used to quantify poroelastic material properties for a human intervertebral disk. An axisymmetric FEM based on a poroelastic view of disk ...

Abstract: Finite element models (FEMs) including characteristic large deformations in highly nonlinear materials (hyperelasticity and coupled diffusive/convective transport of neutral mobile species) will allow ...