Elasticity and Material Modeling

This study investigates the time- and history-dependent mechanical behavior of human masseter muscle under cyclic tensile loading, showing strain-rate and preservation effects on stiffness and viscoelastic properties.

The paper develops a patient-specific cardiac mechanics model using clinical data and evaluates its performance against simplified models, finding that truncation significantly affects results.

This study examines how different loading rates affect the mechanical behavior of human femoropopliteal arteries, finding significant rate-dependent stiffness, especially in the circumferential direction.

The paper introduces a dual-estimation framework to identify aortic material parameters and correlate them with biological variation using data from Wistar rats.

This study uses finite element modeling to analyze how uterine and cervical structural properties affect cervical mechanical loading during pregnancy, identifying key parameters influencing preterm birth risk.

This study compares constitutive neural network predictions of fiber dispersion in the right ventricle with experimental data, showing that multi-axial loading improves parameter identifiability.

This paper characterizes the viscoelastic properties and 3D architecture of bovine thymus extracellular matrix, providing a dataset for tissue engineering applications.

This study shows that colorectal tissue and its nerve fibers exhibit auxetic behavior during circumferential stretching, with measurable deformation at both macro and micro scales.

This study uses a biomechanical model to show that collagen anisotropy is essential for accurately simulating fingertip strain patterns during normal loading.

This paper develops a microstructurally-motivated model of coronary autoregulation that accurately reproduces hemodynamics and autoregulatory responses across myocardial depths.

This study evaluates the impact of tension-compression switches in the GOH model on brain anisotropic modeling, showing that switching parameters and fiber treatment affect WM deformation.

This study shows that the stiffness ratio between spinal cord gray and white matter changes with indentation bead size, depending on the anatomical plane.

This paper introduces a Bayesian framework using active membranes to infer skin biomechanical properties from strain fields without direct force measurements.

This study uses fluid-structure interaction simulations to evaluate how graft material, suture material, and anastomosis angle affect blood flow and shear stress in vascular grafts.

This study uses direct fiber modeling to capture specimen-specific 3D collagen fiber architecture and anisotropic mechanics of sclera samples under various loadings.

This study measures shear moduli of skeletal muscle along and across muscle fibers in rats, finding no significant difference but greater anisotropy at higher strains.

This study develops an anisotropic reactive viscoelastic model of the rhesus macaque cervix to understand its time-dependent remodeling during pregnancy and its implications for preterm birth.

This study assesses inter-laboratory variability in mechanical property characterization of porcine aorta through two testing rounds, highlighting persistent discrepancies despite protocol standardization.

This study translates lab-based arterial stress-stretch data into clinically relevant pressure-diameter predictions using a fiber-reinforced model and systematic validation.

This paper develops a personalized multiscale model of left atrial mechanics and blood flow to simulate deformation and hemodynamics using patient-specific data.

The paper develops methods to mechanically test and analyze nerve fiber deformation in the myenteric plexus of mouse colorectum under loading, providing tools for quantitative stretch ratio calculations.

This study evaluates the robustness of automated model discovery in human myocardial tissue by incorporating generalized structure tensors to account for fiber dispersion.

This paper provides standardized mechanical testing methods and material parameters for human lumbopelvic tissues to improve biomechanical simulations and implant development.

This study characterizes the structural, compositional, and time-dependent micro-mechanical properties of nonhuman primate uterine layers across gestation and compares them to human data.

The paper measures residual stress in brain tissue using MRI and finite element simulations, finding compressive stresses in grey matter and anisotropic tensile stresses in white matter aligned with axon orientation.

The paper develops a continuum elastic model of E. coli peptidoglycan to study stress-strain relationships under large deformations and high turgor pressure.

The paper investigates the mechanical properties of the embryonic small intestine during development, identifying elastic fibers as key to its bending stiffness and mechanical anisotropy.

The paper shows that arterial loops regress under hemodynamics-based diameter adaptation in computational and mathematical models.

This study shows that residual stresses in human carotid artery layers are not fully released by a radial cut and require layer separation to reveal the stress-free state.

This study examines age-related changes in murine uterine biomechanics and composition using Raman spectroscopy and biaxial inflation testing, finding decreased moduli with aging and increased elastin/collagen in the oldest group.