title: Analysis of muscles behaviour. Part I. The computational model of muscle.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the computational model of skeletal muscle, which was treated as the structure of different mechanical properties. The method of identification of those properties is described in detail. In addition, the method of quantitative and qualitative verification of this model is proposed. Applying this computational model, the forces of real muscles can be evaluated without using any optimization technique. Such an approach will be described in the part II of the paper.
authors.affiliation: Mechanics and Strength of Materials Department, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland. wiktoria.wojnicz@pg.gda.pl
authors.forename: Wiktoria
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wojnicz
authors.forename: Edmund
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wittbrodt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004548:Elasticity / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000502:physiology; D053580:Muscle Strength / Q000502:physiology; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology*; D012212:Rheology; D014783:Viscosity