[EN] This work concerns the continuum basis and numerical formulation for deformable materials with viscous dissipative mechanisms. We derive a viscohyperelastic modeling framework based on fundamental thermomechanical ...
[EN] Experiments on passive skeletal muscle on different species show a strong asymmetry in the observed tension-compression mechanical behavior. This asymmetry shows that the tension modulus is two orders of magnitude ...
Latorre, Marcos; Humphrey, Jay D.(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-12)
[EN] Growth and remodeling of soft tissues is a dynamic process and several theoretical frameworks have been developed to analyze the time-dependent, mechanobiological and/or biomechanical responses of these tissues to ...
van Asten, Jordy G. M.; Latorre, Marcos; Karakaya, Cansu; Baaijens, Frank P. T.; Sahlgren, Cecilia M.; Ristori, Tommaso; Humphrey, Jay; Loerakker, Sandra(Springer-Verlag, 2023-10)
[EN] Blood vessels grow and remodel in response to mechanical stimuli. Many computational models capture this process phenomenologically, by assuming stress homeostasis, but this approach cannot unravel the underlying ...
Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2018-03)
[EN] We herein present a new continuum theory for both isotropic and anisotropic elastoplasticity at large strains. The new framework has the following properties: (1) It is valid for non-moderate large strains, (2) it is ...
Navarrete, Álvaro; Utrera, Andrés; Rivera, Eugenio; Latorre, Marcos; Celentano, Diego J.; García-Herrera, Claudio M.(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-11-20)
[EN] The Constrained Mixture Model (CMM) is a novel approach to describe arterial wall mechanics, whose formulation is based on a referential physiological state. The CMM considers the arterial wall as a mixture of ...
Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Springer-Verlag, 2015-08-02)
[EN] In this paper a purely phenomenological formulation and finite element numerical implementation for quasi-incompressible transversely isotropic and orthotropic materials is presented. The stored energy is composed of ...
Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2020-03)
[EN] Many materials present different behavior in tension and compression. Within the infinitesimal isotropic theory, the widely used approach based on the Ambartsumyan theory presents only three independent constants to ...
Weiss, D.; Latorre, Marcos; Rego, B., V.; Cavinato, C.; Tanski, B. J.; Berman, A. G.; Goergen, C. J.; Humphrey, Jay D.(Elsevier, 2021-10-15)
[EN] Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are characterized histopathologically by compromised elastic fiber integrity, lost smooth muscle cells or their function, and remodeled collagen. We used a recently introduced mouse ...
De Rosa, Erica; Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2017-11)
[EN] The elastic nonlinear behavior of fiber-reinforced materials and soft biological tissues is analyzed using anisotropic hyperelastic models. Frequently, these models are not compatible with the corresponding infinitesimal ...
Latorre, Marcos; Spronck, Bart; Humphrey, Jay D.(The Royal Society, 2021-01-27)
[EN] Arteries are exposed to relentless pulsatile haemodynamic loads, but via mechanical homeostasis they tend to maintain near optimal structure, properties and function over long periods in maturity in health. Numerous ...
Sanz, Miguel Á.; Montáns, Francisco Javier; Latorre, Marcos(Elsevier, 2017-06-15)
[EN] In this paper we present a new computational framework for anisotropic elastoplasticity with mixed hardening which presents the following characteristics: (1) it is motivated by a one-dimensional rheological model ...
Latorre, Marcos; Bersi, Matthew R.; Humphrey, Jay D.(Elsevier, 2019-08)
[EN] Uncontrolled hypertension is a major risk factor for myriad cardiovascular diseases. Among its many effects, hypertension increases central artery stiffness which in turn is both an initiator and indicator of disease. ...
Di Marco, Alessia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-09-13)
[ES] Las enfermedades cardiovasculares son la principal causa de muerte a nivel mundial, siendo las arritmias uno de los principales trastornos asociados a estas condiciones. La fibrilación auricular (FA) surge como la ...
Latorre, Marcos; Humphrey, Jay D.(AIP Publishing, 2018-06-05)
[EN] Most soft biological tissues exhibit a remarkable ability to adapt to sustained changes in mechanical loads. These macroscale adaptations, resulting from mechanobiological cellular responses, are important determinants ...
Latorre, Marcos; Peña, Estefanía; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Springer-Verlag, 2017-03)
[EN] What-You-Prescribe-Is-What-You-Get (WYPIWYG) procedures are a novel and general phenomenological approach to modelling the behavior of soft materials, applicable to biological tissues in particular. For the hyperelastic ...
Romero, Xavier; Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2017-10-15)
[EN] Skin is a biological material which mechanical behavior has large variations depending on the individual and the location of the specimen in that individual, among other factors. Large differences are also encountered ...
Spronck, Bart; Latorre, Marcos; Wang, Mo; Mehta, Sameet; Caulk, Alexander W.; Ren, Pengwei; Ramachandra, Abhay B.; Murtada, Sae-Il; Rojas, Alexia; He, Chang-Shun; Jiang, Bo; Bersi, Matthew R.; Tellides, George; Humphrey, Jay D.(The Royal Society, 2021-07-28)
[EN] Hypertension induces significant aortic remodelling, often adaptive but sometimes not. To identify immuno-mechanical mechanisms responsible for differential remodelling, we studied thoracic aortas from 129S6/SvEvTac ...
Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2020-05)
[EN] WYPiWYG hyperelasticity is a data-driven, model-free computational procedure for finite element analysis of soft materials. The procedure does not assume the shape of the stored energy function and does not employ ...
Latorre, Marcos; Montáns, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2013-06)
[EN] In this paper we extend the Sussman¿Bathe spline-based hyperelastic isotropic model to predict the behavior of transversely isotropic isochoric materials. The model is based on an uncoupled decomposition of the stored ...