Engineering Mechanics

Proceedings Vol. 11 (2005)

ENGINEERING MECHANICS 2005

Copyright © 2005 Institute of Mechanics of Solids, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Bruno University of Technology, Brno

 

Burša J., Janíček P., Lebiš R.
pages 69 - +12p., full text

The paper deals with problems related to computational modelling of stress-strain states in vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs). Problems of their structure, geometry, constitutive models, initial (stress-free) state, mechanical couplings to each other and to the extracellular matrix are analyzed. Results of a computational simulation of tension test of a SMC are presented. Perspectives, assumptions and limitations of computational modelling of SMCs under physiological load are discussed.

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