Abstract: A theory is presented for the bending of fluid-saturated poroelastic plates. The governing equations, based on linear consolidation theory, reduce to a single fourth-order integro-partial-differential ...

Abstract: This review deals with biomechanical aspects of growth (mass change), remodeling (property change), and morphogenesis (shape change) in living systems. The emphasis is on theoretical models, but ...

Abstract: A simple phenomenological model is used to study interrelations between material properties, growth-induced residual stresses, and opening angles in arteries. The artery is assumed to be a ...

Abstract: During the morphogenetic process of cardiac looping, the initially straight cardiac tube bends and twists into a curved tube. The biophysical mechanisms that drive looping remain unknown, but ...

Abstract: Early in development, the heart is a single muscle-wrapped tube without formed valves. Yet survival of the embryo depends on the ability of this tube to pump blood at steadily increasing rates ...

Abstract: Microindentation methods are commonly used to determine material properties of soft tissues at the cell or even sub-cellular level. In determining properties from force-displacement (FD) data, it ...

Abstract: A theoretical model is presented for the primitive right ventricle of the stage 21 chick embryo. At this stage of development, the wall of the heart is trabecular with direct intramyocardial ...

Abstract: Accurate material properties of developing embryonic tissues are a crucial factor in studies of the mechanics of morphogenesis. In the present work, we characterize the viscoelastic material ...

Abstract: The analysis of the biomechanics of growth and remodeling in soft tissues requires the formulation of specialized pseudoelastic constitutive relations. The nonlinear finite element analysis package ...