The aim of this work is to develop a new hyperelastic and anisotropic material mimicking histological and mechanical features of healthy and aneurysmal arterial tissues. The target material is constituted by rhombic periodic lattices of hyperelastic fibres embedded into a soft elastomer membrane. Based on a previous theoretical work yielding to an optimized microstructural arrangement and mecha...

In this paper, the problem of large pure bending deformations of membrane is considered. The membrane is a sector of torus with a closed cross-section. This membrane is called a curved tube for short. We consider the homogenous, incompressible, isotropic and hyperelastic material. The external load is a constant pressure and bending couples acting at the edges. The equilibrium equations reduce ...

We perform simulations of suspension capsules with nucleus in shear flow. Every capsule is modeled as a neo-Hookean hyperelastic membrane enclosing rigid particle radius equal to the half radius. The rheology suspensions related deformation and orientation when varying stiffness volume fraction compared dynamics without nucleus.

Most of hyperelastic models for the constitutive modeling of the typical mechanical behaviour of the arterial wall tissue in literature are based on the test data from different animals and arteries. This paper is concerned with the material parameter identification of several phenomenological hyperelastic models by fitting the data from five extension-inflation tests of the porcine aorta segme...

This article presents a very detailed study on the mechanical characterization of highly nonlinear material, immature equine zona pellucida (ZP) membrane. The ZP is modeled as visco-hyperelastic soft matter. Arruda–Boyce constitutive equation and two-term Prony series are identified most suitable models for describing hyperelastic viscous components, respectively, ZP’s response. Material proper...

In this paper, nonlinear analytical solution of pressurized thick cylindrical shells with variable thickness made of hyperelastic materials is presented. The governing equilibrium equations for the cylindrical shell with variable thickness under non-uniform internal pressure are derived based on first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). The shell is assumed to be made of isotropic and homoge...

We consider a shell-like three-dimensional nonlinearly hyperelastic body and we let its thickness go to zero. We show, under appropriate hypotheses on the applied loads, that the deformations that minimize the total energy weakly converge in a Sobolev space toward deformations that minimize a nonlinear shell membrane energy. The nonlinear shell membrane energy is obtained by computing the Γ-lim...