Abstract: Mature tissues can often adapt to changes in their chemical, mechanical, or thermal environment. For example, in response to sustained increases or decreases in mechanical loads, some tissues ...

Abstract: Understanding how transmural distributions of stress relate to the mechanisms of vascular growth, remodeling, and disease necessitates computations that are based on a constitutive relation for ...

Abstract: Computational models of arterial growth and remodeling promise to increase our understanding of basic biological processes, such as development, tissue maintenance, and aging, the biomechanics of ...

Abstract: We performed in vitro pressure-diameter and axial force-length experiments on nondiseased, passive bovine coronary arteries subjected to bath temperatures from 21 to 80° C for 90 s to 4 ...

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: Cerebrovascular disease continues to be responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand better the biomechanics of both intracranial arteries ...

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: A pseudostrain-energy function is proposed for describing the behavior of excised sheets of canine visceral pleura. Pseudoelastic material constants are determined from experimental biaxial data ...