title: A theoretically-based experimental approach for identifying vascular constitutive relations.
abstract: We employ a structurally-motivated phenomenological formulation to identify biomechanical experiments which can be used to determine a vascular constitutive relation directly from data. Large deformations, nonlinear material behavior, load-dependent anisotropy, material heterogeneity and incompressibility are accounted for in the analysis. For purposes of illustration, we outline a procedure for studying elastic arteries wherein the behavior of the media and adventitia is considered separately. This general approach for identifying vascular constitutive relations can be applied to any vessel or airway, however, and should provide certain advantages over previous microstructural or purely phenomenological formulations.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore 21228.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Humphrey
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Strumpf
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Yin
mesh_terms: D001158:Arteries / Q000502:physiology; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology*; D008433:Mathematics; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D013314:Stress, Mechanical