Layer-specific damage experiments and modeling of human thoracic and abdominal aortas with non-atherosclerotic intimal thickening

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
7209439	Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials	2012	14 Pages	PDF

Abstract

âº A novel damage model for arterial tissue calibrated to experimental data. âº Layer-specific experimental data for human aortic tissue. âº Softening of arterial tissue mainly attributed to the collagen fibers.

Keywords

Human aorta Damage Strain-energy function Constitutive modeling

Related Topics

Physical Sciences and Engineering Engineering Biomedical Engineering

Layer-specific damage experiments and modeling of human thoracic and abdominal aortas with non-atherosclerotic intimal thickening

Authors

Hannah Weisbecker, David M. Pierce, Peter Regitnig, Gerhard A. Holzapfel,