Finite strains of viscoelastic muscle tissue
The mechanical behaviour of muscle tissue whose characteristic feature is the capacity to contract under the effect of factors of non-mechanical nature has been investigated. This work is the development of the phenomenological model of biologically active behaviour of a material under the joint action of mechanical forces and a signal of electrochemical nature in the finite strain case. The authors used a relaxation type of relationship for both viscous and biological strain components. As a result, the current state of the muscle is determined by the prehistory of strain and stimulation. The authors then studied the isothermal approximation for a one component transversally isotropic homogeneous medium. This work might be very useful for those researchers working on the mechanical modelling of muscle contractions.
one component transversally isotropic homogeneous medium
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4081047