Publication detail

ANISOTROPY OF SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUES AND ITS CONSIDERATION IN CONSTITUTIVE MODELS OF ARTERIES

BURŠA, J. HRUBANOVÁ, A. SKÁCEL, P. FISCHER, J. TURČANOVÁ, M. LISICKÝ, O.

English title

ANISOTROPY OF SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUES AND ITS CONSIDERATION IN CONSTITUTIVE MODELS OF ARTERIES

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

Biomechanical computational models used more and more in medical research as well as in clinical applications need mathematical description of soft tissues with their very complex mechanical behaviour. They show large deformations with stress softening during cyclic loading, being moreover time-dependent due to their viscoelasticity, anisotropic due to fibrous structure and dependent on tissue excitation in case of muscular tissues, including smooth muscle cells in arterial walls. They are capable to adapt to the acting load (tissue remodelation) and to self-repair (healing) in case of damage or failure (rupture of fibres, etc.) This paper deals with constitutive description of passive elastic response of soft tissues to the acting load and with the ways, how the anisotropic structure of the tissue can be reflected. For this purpose, the spatial arrangement of fibres in the tissue needs to be detected and mathematically described. Lack of data on fibre arrangement in soft tissues and their interpatient variability is a major limiting factor for anisotropic constitutive description of soft tissues. Some problems related to transformation of results of mechanical tests and histological analyses of arterial tissues into parameters applicable in constitutive models are addressed as well.

English abstract

Biomechanical computational models used more and more in medical research as well as in clinical applications need mathematical description of soft tissues with their very complex mechanical behaviour. They show large deformations with stress softening during cyclic loading, being moreover time-dependent due to their viscoelasticity, anisotropic due to fibrous structure and dependent on tissue excitation in case of muscular tissues, including smooth muscle cells in arterial walls. They are capable to adapt to the acting load (tissue remodelation) and to self-repair (healing) in case of damage or failure (rupture of fibres, etc.) This paper deals with constitutive description of passive elastic response of soft tissues to the acting load and with the ways, how the anisotropic structure of the tissue can be reflected. For this purpose, the spatial arrangement of fibres in the tissue needs to be detected and mathematically described. Lack of data on fibre arrangement in soft tissues and their interpatient variability is a major limiting factor for anisotropic constitutive description of soft tissues. Some problems related to transformation of results of mechanical tests and histological analyses of arterial tissues into parameters applicable in constitutive models are addressed as well.

Keywords in English

Anisotropy; Mechanical properties; Hyperelasticity; Soft tissue; Collagen fibre

Released

09.05.2023

Publisher

Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v.v.i.

Location

Milovy

ISBN

978-80-87012-84-0

ISSN

1805-8248

Book

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2023 29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Number

29

Edition number

29

Pages from–to

17–26

Pages count

10

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT184869,
  author="Jiří {Burša} and Anna {Hrubanová} and Pavel {Skácel} and Jiří {Fischer} and Michaela {Turčanová} and Ondřej {Lisický},
  title="ANISOTROPY OF SOFT BIOLOGICAL TISSUES AND ITS CONSIDERATION IN CONSTITUTIVE MODELS OF ARTERIES",
  booktitle="ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2023 29th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE",
  year="2023",
  number="29",
  month="May",
  pages="17--26",
  publisher="Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v.v.i.",
  address="Milovy",
  isbn="978-80-87012-84-0",
  issn="1805-8248"
}