A finite-element model is used to analyze the mechanical behavior of the left ventricle. The ventricle is treated as a heterogeneous, linearly elastic, thickwalled solid of revolution. The inner third of the ventricular wall is assumed to be transversely isotropic with a longitudinal Young's modulus, transverse modulus, and shear modulus of 60 g/cm, 30 g/cm, and 15.5 g/cm, respectively. In the ...

INTRODUCTION Biot’s theory of poroelastic solids [1] describes the behavior of fluids in porous materials and provides the biophysical basis for loadinduced fluid flow in bone. Applying this theory to bone, compression of the matrix causes an instantaneous increase in pore pressure within the matrix; to equilibrate this pore pressure gradient, fluid moves out of the pore spaces of the matrix un...

Response of a transversely isotropic 3-D half-space subjected to a surface time-harmonic excitation is presented in analytical form. The derivation of the fundamental solutions expressed in terms of displacements is based on the prefect series of displacement potential functions that have been obtained in the companion paper by the authors. First the governing equations are uncoupled in the cyl...

In this paper, we model and compute flow-induced mechanical properties of nematic polymer nanocomposites, consisting of transversely isotropic rigid spheroids in an isotropic matrix. Our goal is to fill a gap in the theoretical literature between random and perfectly aligned spheroidal composites (Odegard et al. in Compos. Sci. Technol. 63, 1671–1687, 2003; Gusev et al. in Adv. Eng. Mater. 4(12...

A.N. Norris and J.D. Achenbach The Technological Institute Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60201 Crack diffraction in a transversely isotropic material is analyzed. The solution is given for the diffracted field generated by incidence of a plane time-harmonic wave on a semiinfinite crack located in a plane normal to the axis of symmetry of the material. The exact solution is obtained by Fo...

Concise and numerically feasible dynamic and static Green's functions are obtained in dyadic form by solving the wave equation and the equilibrium equation with general source distribution in transversely isotropic (TI) media. The wave and equilibrium equations are solved by using an extended version of the Kupradze method originally developed for isotropic media. The dynamic Green's function i...