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CONTINUUM MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS
Volume 28, Issue 1-2, Pages 579-601Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00161-015-0465-y
Keywords
Mixture theories; Porous media; Poroplasticity; Remodelling; Soft tissues
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- Polytechnic of Turin (Italy)
- Goethe Universitat Frankfurt (Germany)
- German Ministry for Economy and Technology (BMWi) [02E10326]
- Baden Wurttemberg-Stiftung
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We present a poroplastic model of structural reorganisation in a binary mixture comprising a solid and a fluid phase. The solid phase is the macroscopic representation of a deformable porous medium, which exemplifies the matrix of a biological system (consisting e.g. of cells, extracellular matrix, collagen fibres). The fluid occupies the interstices of the porous medium and is allowed to move throughout it. The system reorganises its internal structure in response to mechanical stimuli. Such structural reorganisation, referred to as remodelling, is described in terms of plastic distortions, whose evolution is assumed to obey a phenomenological flow rule driven by stress. We study the influence of remodelling on the mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of the system, showing how the plastic distortions modulate the flow pattern of the fluid, and the distributions of pressure and stress inside it. To accomplish this task, we solve a highly nonlinear set of model equations by elaborating a previously developed numerical procedure, which is implemented in a non-commercial finite element solver.
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