Preface

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In the year 2000 a series of papers on ‘Cardiovascular Soft Tissue Mechanics’ was published in a special issue of the Journal of Elasticity, with guest editors Stephen C. Cowin and Jay D. Humphrey. This compilation of seven papers has been very successful and very influential in the further development of the mechanics of fibrous tissues (over 2,000 citations as in May 2017, according to the Web of Science). Since 2000 there has been much progress in the modeling and simulation of soft tissue mechanics and it is now considered an appropriate time to produce a further special issue, but now focusing on broader aspects of soft tissue mechanics. We have therefore brought together a collection of 12 papers from selected leading experts in the field to provide particular reference to multiscale modeling and mechanobiology for a range of different soft tissues, such as arteries, the eye, the brain, and the heart. …