Abstract: A formal procedure is outlined for establishing a priori functional relationships between the probability-of-success measure of reliability and dimensionless parameter combinations of the pertinent ...

Abstract: During the last two decades, biological structures with soft tissue components have been modeled using poroelastic or mixture-based constitutive laws, i.e., the material is viewed as a deformable ...

Abstract: This paper sheds light on the mechanism of post equilibrium sea bed scour around dynamically active marine structures such as wind turbines. Exposure of a fully developed scour hole (at equilibrium state) around a wind ...

Abstract: A computer-based subsystem has been implemented for the smoothing and differentiation of human motion data. Nonrecursive finite impulse response digital filtering has been employed for this purpose. ...

Abstract: A quasilinear viscoelastic model was used to develop relaxation and creep forms for a constitutive law for soft tissues. Combined relaxation and cyclic test data as well as preconditioned and ...

Abstract: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is the gradual weakening and dilation of the infrarenal aorta. This disease is progressive, asymptomatic, and can eventually lead to rupture—a catastrophic event ...

Abstract: A “porohyperelastic” (PHE) material model is described and the theoretical frame-work presented that allows identification of the necessary material properties functions for soft arterial tissues. ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional finite element model for a poroelastic medium has been coupled with a least squares parameter estimation method for the purpose of assessing material properties based on ...