Abstract: Biaxial mechanical testing and theoretical continuum mechanics analysis are employed to formulate a constitutive law for cardiac mitral valve anterior and posterior leaflets. A strain energy ...

Abstract: Indentation using the atomic force microscope (AFM) has potential to measure detailed micromechanical properties of soft biological samples. However, interpretation of the results is complicated ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional constitutive relation for passive cardiac tissue is formulated in terms of a structurally motivated pseudostrain-energy function, W , while the mathematical simplicity of ...

Abstract: We present a new theoretically motivated experimental approach for identifying the functional form of a constitutive relation for any nonlinear, anisotropic pseudoelastic biological membrane. The ...

Abstract: The constitutive law of the material comprising any structure is essential for mechanical analysis since this law enables calculation of the stresses from the deformations and vice versa. To ...

Abstract: In the first paper of this series, we proposed a new transversely isotropic pseudostrain-energy function W for describing the biomechanical behavior of excised noncontracting myocardium. The ...

Abstract: The specific aim of this study is to determine a constitutive relation for non-contracting myocardium in terms of a pseudostrain-energy function W whose form is guided by both theory and ...