title: A biomechanical model of artery buckling.
abstract: The stability of arteries under blood pressure load is essential to the maintenance of normal arterial function and the loss of stability can lead to tortuosity and kinking that are associated with significant clinical complications. However, mechanical analysis of arterial bent buckling is lacking. To address this issue, this paper presents a biomechanical model of arterial buckling. Using an elastic cylindrical arterial model, the mechanical equations for arterial buckling were developed and the critical buckling pressure was found to be a function of the wall stiffness (Young's modulus), arterial radius, length, wall thickness, and the axial strain. Both the model equations and experimental results demonstrated that the critical pressure is related to the axial strain. Arteries may buckle and become tortuous due to reduced (subphysiological) axial strain, hypertensive pressure, and a weakened wall. These results are in accordance with, and provide a possible explanation to the clinical observations that hypertension and aging are the risk factors for arterial tortuosity and kinking. The current model is also applicable to veins and ureters.
authors: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Biomedical Engineering Program, UTSA-UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA. haichao.han@utsa.edu
authors: Hai-Chao
authors: HC
authors: Han
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001158:Arteries / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena / Q000379:methods*; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D014664:Vasodilation / Q000502:physiology*
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