Memory functions as a tool for the description of tissue deformability

Issue title: Special Issue for the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology. Part III. Baden-Baden, F.R. Germany, 20–24 August 1983

Guest editors: Alfred L. Copley and Siegfried Witte

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mahrenholtz, O.H.^a | Zimmermann, R.-U.^b

Affiliations: [a] Technische Universität Hamburg, Harburg, Arbeitsbereich Strukturmechanik, Federal Republic of Germany | [b] Universität Hannover, Inst. f. Mechanik, Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract: The mechanical description of the behaviour of tissue started with the Hookean model, i.e. the tissue, in particular the vessel wall, was treated as linear elastic. Time dependent aspects have been included by an extension to the Kelvin-Voigt model and to the so-called 3-parameter model. The aim of this paper is to apply the concept of hereditary integrals to tissue deformability. This integral formulation has as its experimental background creep and relaxation.

Keywords: viscoelastic tissue, memory functions

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-21501

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 663-674, 1984