Biological tissues adapt to changed loading conditions through growth and remodelling (G&R) to reestablish a so-called homeostatic state. On the other hand, loading conditions above their physiological limits, as during ...

Atherosclerosis is a disease in blood vessels that often results in plaque formation and lumen narrowing. It is an inflammatory response of the tissue caused by disruptions in the vessel wall nourishment. Blood vessels are ...

This work presents the application of a chemo-mechano-biological constitutive model of soft tissues for describing tissue inflammatory response to damage in collagen constituents. The material model is implemented into a ...