Cardiovascular Soft Tissue Mechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cowin, Stephen C. (Editor), Humphrey, Jay D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Cardiology.; Mechanics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Continuum mechanics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.
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This special volume of the Journal of Elasticity represents the first in a new p- gram dedicated to the occasional publication of collections of invited, reviewed papers of topical interest. The purpose of this program is to spotlight the dev- opments and applications in the mechanics of materials w...

Table of Contents:

• A new Constitutive Framework for Arterial Wall Mechanics and a Comparative Study of Material Models
• Structure, Mechanical Properties, and Mechanics of Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms
• A Model of Arterial Adaptation to Alterations in Blood Flow
• Computational Mechanics of the Heart
• Effect of Laminar Orthotropic Myofiber Architecture on Regional Stress and Strain in the Canine Left Ventricle
• Modeling Heart Development
• Biaxial Mechanical Evaluation of Planar Biological Materials.