Abstract: A testing facility for measuring the biaxial mechanical properties of highly deformable membranes is described. Forces are applied, via strain-gauge force transducers, to four points on each side ...

Abstract: The study of ventricular mechanics—analyzing the distribution of strain and stress in myocardium throughout the cardiac cycle—is crucially dependent on the accuracy of the constitutive law chosen ...

Abstract: Estimating material parameters is an important part in the study of soft tissue mechanics. Computational time can easily run to days, especially when all available experimental data are taken ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional finite element method for nonlinear finite elasticity is presented using prolate spheroidal coordinates. For a thick-walled ellipsoidal model of passive anisotropic left ventricle, ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional Galerkin finite element method was developed for large deformations of ventricular myocardium and other incompressible, nonlinear elastic, anisotropic materials. Cylindrical and ...