In this paper, we present a new approach for the bi-axial characterization of in vitro human arteries and we prove its feasibility on an example. The specificity of the approach is that it can handle heterogeneous strain and stress distributions in arterial segments. From the full-field experimental data obtained in inflation/extension tests, an inverse approach, called the virtual fields metho...

It is shown that nonlinear elastic pre-stress of neo-Hookean hyperelastic materials can be used as a mechanism to generate finite cloaks and thus render objects near-invisible to incoming antiplane elastic waves. This approach appears to negate the requirement for special cloaking metamaterials with inhomogeneous and anisotropic material properties in this case. These properties are induced nat...

In this paper we are interested in studying the free motion of a hyperelastic body (also called swimmer) immersed in a perfect fluid. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equations from the Least Action Principle of Lagrangian Mechanics and prove that they are well-posed when the number of elastic modes is finite. The recourse to a strain energy density function in the modeling allows many different co...

Abstract This article considers a thin-walled hollow cylinder, which is composed of fibrous and swellable hyperelastic material. The fibers are arranged in two families they taken to be parallel within each fiber family. also assumed mechanically equivalent symmetrically disposed the ground substance At instant homogeneous swelling, material incompressible. studies interplay orientation, mechan...

The Ovine spine is an accepted model to investigate the biomechanical behaviour of the human lumbar one. Indeed, the use of animal models for in vitro studies is necessary to investigate the mechanical behaviour of biological tissue, but needs to be reduced for ethical and social reasons. The aim of this study was to create a finite element model of the lumbar intervertebral disc of the sheep t...

Knee ligaments are elastic bands of soft tissue with a complex microstructure and biomechanics, which are critical to determine the kinematics as well as the stress bearing behavior of the knee joint. Their correct implementation in terms of material models and properties is therefore necessary in the development of finite element models of the knee, which has been performed for decades for the...

Arterial walls in the healthy physiological regime are characterized by quasi-incompressible, anisotropic, hyperelastic material behavior. Polyconvex material functions representing such materials typically incorporate a penalty function to account for the incompressibility. Unfortunately, the penalty will affect the conditioning of the stiffness matrices. For high penalty parameters, the perfo...

Coupled computational fluid dynamics and finite element analyses were used to determine the material properties of the egg and jelly layer of the sea urchin Arbacia punctulata. Prior experimental shear flow results were used to provide material parameters for these simulations. A Neo-Hookean model was used to model the hyperelastic behaviors of the jelly layer and egg. A simple compressive simu...

an analytical solution is presented for displacements and stresses of a three dimensional linear hyperelastic transversely isotropic layer bonded on the top of a transversely isotropic half-space subjected to an arbitrary, time-harmonic surface tangential force. the equations of equilibrium in terms of displacements are uncoupled by using a set of two potential functions introduced by eskandari...