Cardiovascular Biomechanics
Navid Soltani; Abbas Nasiraei Moghaddam; Nasser Faturaee; Saeed Seyri; Aisa Rassoli
Volume 8, Issue 4 , February 2015, , Pages 359-370
Abstract
Experimental tests and equations on the continuum mechanics are used in order to obtain the constitutive models of soft tissue using in predictive heart simulation. Considering the myocardium as one of the important tissues, in this paper first the morphology and structure of myocardium has been reviewed ...
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Experimental tests and equations on the continuum mechanics are used in order to obtain the constitutive models of soft tissue using in predictive heart simulation. Considering the myocardium as one of the important tissues, in this paper first the morphology and structure of myocardium has been reviewed and the mechanical response of passive form of this tissue has been investigated. The myocardium of left ventricle was considered as non linear elastic, in-compressible and non homogeneous material and using of bi-axial test in 3 lambs myocardium on fiber direction; a constitutive model of this tissue has been proposed. The model so constructed is then evaluated against the biaxial data, and values of the material constants have been obtained by curve fitting so the final model states the strain-energy function as cauchy's invariants which can be helpful in heart simulation.
