
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Identification of nonlinear hyperelastic material parameters for
healthy myocardial tissue via an inverse method based on
modelling the passive filling stage of the cardiac cycle
M. Essack & S. Skatulla
CERECAM and the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa
ABSTRACT: For the purposes of this research, the passive filling stage of the cardiac cycle is modelled with a non linear hyperelastic
orthotropic material law (Usyk, Mazhari, & McCulloch 2000). Inherent to this ...