A truss element for modelling reversible softening in living tissues

J.J. Muñoz; V. Conte; N. Asadipour; M. Miodownik

doi:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.02.003

A truss element for modelling reversible softening in living tissues

J.J. Muñoz, V. Conte, N. Asadipour, M. Miodownik

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Abstract

We resort to non-linear viscoelasticity to develop a truss element able to model reversible softening in lung epithelial tissues undergoing transient stretch. Such a Maxwell truss element is built by resorting to a three-noded element whose mid-node is kinematically constrained to remain on the line connecting the end-nodes. The whole mechanical system undergoes an additive decomposition of the strains along the truss direction where the total contribution of the mid-node is accounted for by using a null-space projection and static condensation techniques. Assembling of such line-elements in 3D networks allows us to model extended regions of living tissues as well as their anisotropies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	44-49
Number of pages	6
Journal	Mechanics Research Communications
Volume	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.02.003
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Maxwell
Null-space
Reversible softening
Truss
Viscoelasticity

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