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Gerhard Holzapfel

Researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Publications -  445
Citations -  29335

Gerhard Holzapfel is an academic researcher from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Finite element method & Constitutive equation. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 410 publications receiving 25410 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerhard Holzapfel include Washington University in St. Louis & Graz University of Technology.

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A new constitutive framework for arterial wall mechanics and a comparative study of material models

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a constitutive law for the description of the (passive) mechanical response of arterial tissue, where the artery is modeled as a thick-walled nonlinearly elastic circular cylindrical tube consisting of two layers corresponding to the media and adventitia.
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Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: A Continuum Approach for Engineering

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of stress and balance principles for tensors and invariance of tensors in the context of Vectors and Tensors, and present a survey of the main aspects of objectivity.
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Hyperelastic modelling of arterial layers with distributed collagen fibre orientations

TL;DR: A structural continuum framework that is able to represent the dispersion of the collagen fibre orientation is developed and allows the development of a new hyperelastic free-energy function that is particularly suited for representing the anisotropic elastic properties of adventitial and intimal layers of arterial walls.
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Determination of layer-specific mechanical properties of human coronary arteries with nonatherosclerotic intimal thickening and related constitutive modeling

TL;DR: The study showed the need to model nonstenotic human coronary arteries with nonatherosclerotic intimal thickening as a composite structure composed of three solid mechanically relevant layers with different mechanical properties.
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Constitutive modelling of passive myocardium: A structurally-based framework for material characterization

TL;DR: In this article, a structural model for the left ventricular myocardium is proposed, based on the invariants associated with the three mutually orthogonal directions of the myocardia.