A new constitutive framework for arterial wall mechanics and a comparative study of material models. (English) Zbl 1023.74033

Holzapfel, Gerhard A.; Gasser, Thomas C.; Ogden, Ray W.

J. Elasticity 61, No. 1-3, 1-48 (2000).

From the text: We develop a new constitutive law for the description of mechanical response of arterial tissue. The artery is modeled as a thick-walled nonlinearly elastic circular cylindrical tube consisting of two layers corresponding to the media and adventitia. The resulting constitutive law is orthotropic in each layer. The aim is to provide a systematic study of mechanical properties of arteries.

Reviewer: Rudolf Kodnár (Bratislava)

MSC:

74L15	Biomechanical solid mechanics
74B20	Nonlinear elasticity
92C10	Biomechanics

Keywords:

arterial wall mechanics; biomechanics; finite deformations; two-layer orthotropic model; constitutive law; arterial tissue; thick-walled nonlinearly elastic circular cylindrical tube