A three-dimensional model of skeletal muscle tissues
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arXiv2207.02421MaRDI QIDQ6404112FDOQ6404112
Authors: Javier A. Almonacid, Sebastián A. Domínguez-Rivera, Ryan N. Konno, Nilima Nigam, Stephanie A. Ross, Cassidy Tam, James M. Wakeling 
Publication date: 5 July 2022
Abstract: Skeletal muscles are living tissues that can undergo large deformations in short periods of time and that can be activated to produce force. In this paper we use the principles of continuum mechanics to propose a dynamic, fully non-linear, and three-dimensional model to describe the deformation of these tissues. We model muscles as a fibre-reinforced composite and transversely isotropic material. We introduce a flexible computational framework to approximate the deformations of skeletal muscle to provide new insights into the underlying mechanics of these tissues. The model parameters and mechanical properties are obtained through experimental data and can be specified locally. A semi-implicit in time, conforming finite element in space scheme is used to approximate the solutions to the governing nonlinear dynamic model. We provide a series of numerical experiments demonstrating the application of this framework to relevant problems in biomechanics, and also discuss questions around model validation.
Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20)
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