...Daniel P. Pearce; Colleen M. Witzenburg Soft biological tissues often function as highly deformable membranes in vivo and exhibit impressive mechanical behavior effectively characterized by planar biaxial testing. The Generalized Anisotropic Inverse Mechanics (GAIM) method links full-field...

... in the literature. Finally, we discuss the implications of the model for collagen fiber orientation and deposition in arteries. biomechanics arterial wall axial stretch anisotropy biaxial testing modeling collagen fibers law of mixtures inverse identification It is known that arteries...

... elastomers proteins anisotropy heterogeneous inverse mechanics soft tissues biaxial testing Load-bearing tissues (e.g., ligament, heart valve leaflet) are dependent on their underlying structures for proper function. In fibrous soft tissues, the structural anisotropy of collagen fibers...

...Armin Eilaghi; John G. Flanagan; G. Wayne Brodland; C. Ross Ethier Biaxial testing has been used widely to characterize the mechanical properties of soft tissues and other flexible materials, but fundamental issues related to specimen design and attachment have remained. Finite element models...