Abstract: Stress-modulated growth in the aorta is studied using a theoretical model. The model is a thick-walled tube composed of two pseudoelastic, orthotropic layers representing the intima/media and the ...

Abstract: This paper specializes the nonlinear laminated-muscle-shell theory developed in Part I to cylindrical geometry and computes stresses in arteries and the beating left ventricle. The theory accounts ...

Abstract: This paper presents a theory for studies of the large-strain behavior of biological shells composed of layers of incompressible, orthotropic tissue, possibly muscle, of arbitrary orientation. The ...

Abstract: Large deformation of enucleated pig eyeballs under rigid cylindrical indenters was studied analytically and experimentally. The analytic model for the eyeball consists of a fluid-filled spherical ...

Abstract: Large axisymmetric deformation of pressurized shells of revolution is studied. The governing equations include the effects of transverse normal strain and transverse shear deformation for shells ...

Abstract: Asymptotic expansions are developed for the equations governing large axisymmetric deformation of a circular cylindrical shell composed of a Mooney material. The shell equations allow large normal ...

Abstract: Large deflection of a fluid-filled spherical shell under a concentrated load was studied analytically and experimentally. The analysis involves a strain energy approach based on thin shell theory ...

Abstract: Based on the Reissner plate equations for large displacements and rotations within the limits of small strain, asymptotic solutions are developed for circular plates under uniform pressure. With ...

Abstract: Two variational solutions were studied for large deflection of a fluid-filled hemispherical shell by a rigid cylindrical indenter. One solution is based on shell theory (including bending and ...