
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Biological tissue mechanics with fibres modelled as one-dimensional
Cosserat continua: Applications to cardiac tissue in healthy
and diseased states
K. Sack & S. Skatulla
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
C. Sansour
Division of Materials, Mechanics, and Structures, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
ABSTRACT: Classically, the elastic behaviour of biological tissues is modelled using anisotropic strain energy
functions which are supposed to capture the ...