Continuum Mechanics of Soft Tissue~Growth~and~Remodeling

Synonyms

Adaptation; Constitutive framework; Constrained mixture; Mechanobiology

Definitions

Biomechanics – the development, extension, and application of principles and concepts of mechanics to study living things and the materials or structures with which they interact.

Constitutive Relation – a mathematical description of the behavior of a material in response to applied loads and under conditions of interest, which depends upon the particular internal constitution of the material.

Hemodynamics – the study of blood flow and pressure within the vasculature using methods of fluid mechanics, both experimental and computational.

Growth – an active, cell-mediated process by which mass is changed at cellular, tissue, organ, or organism levels. Negative growth is often referred to as atrophy.

Remodeling – an active, cell-mediated process by which structure is changed, which can include the structure of the cytoskeleton within a cell, the extracellular matrix outside a cell, or even the...