Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7207912 Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 2016 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

- An elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model is developed at finite deformation.
- Piecewise linearization theory is introduced in the hypo-elastic relations.
- Anisotropy is considered by some parameters dependent on the load direction.
- Anisotropic monotonic deformations of soft tissues are reasonably described.
- Uniaxial ratchetting of soft tissues is well predicted.
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