Unified viscoelasticity : applying discrete element models to soft tissues with two characteristic times
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 7138163
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.07.015
- Title of journal
- Journal of Biomechanics
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- First page
- 3128
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 12
- ISSN
- 0021-9290
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper is a collaboration with University of Southampton on modelling viscoelastic materials. The paper is significant because it demonstrates how different viscoelastic models, commonly used, obey the same governing equations that can be generalised in a unified model. The model is capable of describing creep and stress relaxation for several distinct biological soft tissues. The paper permitted the establishment of an international collaboration with the Institute of Biomechanics at Graz University of Technology (Gerhard Holzapfel, holzapfel@tugraz.at), leading to a successful Leverhulme Trust grant (VP1-2017-001). This research approach has been further applied in breast tissue by Madani and Mojra (10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.01.044).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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