Abstract: The strain energy for the air-filled lung is calculated from a model of the parenchymal microstructure. The energy is the sum of the surface energy and the elastic energies of two tissue ...

Abstract: A strain energy function for liquid foam is formulated by modeling foam as a collection of randomly oriented surfaces with surface tension on the faces. The surfaces are assumed to follow the ...

Abstract: A model consisting of two elastic beams separated by hinged rods is used to analyze the axially nonuniform collapse of an elastic tube extending into a pressure vessel. The conditions for ...

Abstract: An analysis is presented of the deformation of a homogeneous, isotropic, elastic half space subjected to a constant radial strain in a circular area on the boundary. Explicit analytic expressions ...

Abstract: A model is presented to describe the one-dimensional flow of an incompressible fluid through a deformable porous material. The model is based on the Forchheimer extension of the Darcy law for ...