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# Journal of Elasticity

## Journal of Elasticity OnlineFirst articles

15-04-2021 Open Access

### Modelling the Inflation and Elastic Instabilities of Rubber-Like Spherical and Cylindrical Shells Using a New Generalised Neo-Hookean Strain Energy Function

The application of a newly proposed generalised neo-Hookean strain energy function to the inflation of incompressible rubber-like spherical and cylindrical shells is demonstrated in this paper. The pressure ( P $P$ ) – inflation ( λ $\lambda$ or …

14-04-2021 Open Access

### Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Models Across Common Biomechanical Experiments

Biomechanical modeling has a wide range of applications in the medical field, including in diagnosis, treatment planning and tissue engineering. The key to these predictive models are appropriate constitutive equations that can capture the …

12-04-2021

### Gravity Is Our Best Friend Yet Can Also Be Our Worst Enemy: Tissue Deformations and Pressure Ulcer Risk on the Operating Table

At least 1 in 10 patients develop intraoperative pressure ulcers (PUs). The specific rigid (bio)mechanical constraints that apply in the operation room (OR) and which are unique to this clinical environment, including the inability to periodically …

21-01-2021

### Constrained Mixture Models of Soft Tissue Growth and Remodeling – Twenty Years After

Soft biological tissues compromise diverse cell types and extracellular matrix constituents, each of which can possess individual natural configurations, material properties, and rates of turnover. For this reason, mixture-based models of growth …

20-01-2021

### A Chemomechanical Model for Regulation of Contractility in the Embryonic Brain Tube

Morphogenesis is regulated by genetic, biochemical, and biomechanical factors, but the feedback controlling the interactions between these factors remains poorly understood. A previous study has found that compressing the brain tube of the early …