Stéphane Avril
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Mines Saint-Étienne Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering Saint-Étienne, France E-mail: avril@emse.fr |
Keywords:Parameter identification using full-field optical measurements; digital image/volume correlation; optical coherence imaging; virtual fields method; elastography; vascular remodeling and adaptation; mechanics of VSMCs; tensional homeostasis; mechanotransduction; mechanobiology of aneurysms; computer modeling of endovascular aneurysm repair |
Alain Goriely
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University of Oxford Website |
Keywords: Brain modeling; brain tissue and mechanics; neuromechanics; shaping of the brain and skull during development; axonal rheology; nonlinear inelasticity; morphogenesis; ageing; brain trauma and disease; multiphase theory; contact mechanics |
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
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Graz University of Technology Website |
Keywords: Main aspects of mechanical/structural modeling of biological soft tissue; identification of collagen fiber dispersion and associated modeling, including fiber recruitment and damage – pros/cons; modeling/simulation aspects of aortic dissection; negative Poynting effect and its connection with collagen cross-links |
Ellen Kuhl
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Stanford University Website |
Keywords: Automated discovery of models, parameters, and experiments for soft tissues; from continuum mechanics to constitutive artificial neural networks; comparing invariant and principal-stretch based networks; Bayesian networks, uncertainty quantification; discovering models, parameters, and experiments for brain, skin, and arteries |
David Nordsletten
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University of Michigan Website |
Keywords: Cardiac biomechanics; patient-specific modeling; image-based modeling; model personalization; data assimilation; biomechanics of engineered heart tissues; fractional viscoelasticity; numerical methods; finite element methods; hemodynamic modeling; fluid-structure interaction; elastography; relative pressure estimation |
Ray W. Ogden
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University of Glasgow Website |
Keywords: Continuum mechanics required for application to soft biological tissue constitutive modeling; fiber-reinforced materials, fiber dispersion, cross-linking; importance of residual stresses and their influence on the elastic response of arteries; modeling errors to be avoided |