title: On nonlinear viscoelastic properties of arterial tissue.
abstract: Nonlinear viscoelasticity is important in a variety of studies in biomechanics. One of the subject areas is the necessity to characterize the dynamic properties of blood vessels. This study concerns a theoretical formulation to examine the higher order nonlinear viscoelastic relaxation functions for arterial tissue based on the assumption of transversely isotropic material properties. Simple numerical results for the first-order theory are compared with those available in the literature.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001158:Arteries / Q000502:physiology*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004285:Dogs; D004548:Elasticity; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D012212:Rheology; D013997:Time Factors; D014783:Viscosity