Biomechanical Aspects of Soft Tissues PDF

Features

Unified presentation of soft tissues as fluid saturated porous media, including several immiscible fluids, encompassing, but including, the standard single phase solid analysis and its anisotropic and nonlinear features Constitutive modeling of mechanical responses of tissues embedding the structural components Inclusion of tissue membranes in the constitutive modeling, controlling transfer of biological components Encompasses structural, biochemical, electrical and mechanical properties of three tissues with fixed charges (articular cartilages, corneal stroma, intervertebral disc) Condenses different concepts, methodologies and puts forward new approaches for handling the topic in an integrated and exhaustive fashion

Summary

Biomechanics applies the laws and techniques of mechanics in the study of biological systems and related phenomena. Biomechanics uses mathematical and computational tools such as model construction of musclo-skeletal system, body fluid circulation, to aid medical diagnosis, therapeutics and surgery planning, designing of prostheses and implants or in tissue engineering. Present book targets specific topics pertaining to the biomechanics of soft tissues. Subjects addressed includes solids and multi-species mixtures as open systems: a continuum mechanics perspective; electro-chemo-mechanical couplings: tissues with a fixed electric charge and growth of biological tissues.

Authors:  Benjamin Loret, Fernando Manuel Fernandes Simoes