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A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue

Mihai LA, Budday S, Holzapfel GA, Kuhl E, Goriely A (2017)

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Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2017

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Book Volume: 106

Pages Range: 60-79

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.05.015

Open Access Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509617302703

Abstract

Experiments on brain samples under multiaxial loading have shown that human brain tissue is both extremely soft when compared to other biological tissues and characterized by a peculiar elastic response under combined shear and compression/tension: there is a significant increase in shear stress with increasing axial compression compared to a moderate increase with increasing axial tension. Recent studies have revealed that many widely used constitutive models for soft biological tissues fail to capture this characteristic response. Here, guided by experiments of human brain tissue, we develop a family of modeling approaches that capture the elasticity of brain tissue under varying simple shear superposed on varying axial stretch by exploiting key observations about the behavior of the nonlinear shear modulus, which can be obtained directly from the experimental data.

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APA:

Mihai, L.A., Budday, S., Holzapfel, G.A., Kuhl, E., & Goriely, A. (2017). A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 106, 60-79. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2017.05.015

MLA:

Mihai, L. Angela, et al. "A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 106 (2017): 60-79.

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