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Influence of preservation temperature on the measured mechanical properties of brain tissue
(Elsevier, 2013-04-26)
The large variability in experimentally measured mechanical properties of brain tissue is due to many factors including heterogeneity, anisotropy, age dependence and post-mortem time. Moreover, differences in test protocols ...
On anisotropic elasticity and questions concerning its Finite Element implementation
(Springer, 2013-05-21)
We give conditions on the strain-energy function of nonlinear anisotropic hyperelastic materials that ensure compatibility with the classical linear theories of anisotropic elasticity. We uncover the limitations associated ...
At least three invariants are necessary to model the mechanical response of incompressible, transversely isotropic materials
(Springer, 2013-04-18)
The modelling of off-axis simple tension experiments on transversely isotropic nonlinearly elastic materials is considered. A testing protocol is proposed where normal force is applied to one edge of a rectangular specimen ...