期刊
出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0102
关键词
quasilinear viscoelasticity; Fung; nonlinear Volterra integral equations; balloons; bladder; biological soft tissue
资金
- EPSRC [EP/K033208/1]
- [PON03PE_00067_2]
- EPSRC [EP/L017997/1, EP/K032208/1, EP/R014604/1, EP/L018039/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/R014604/1, EP/K032208/1] Funding Source: researchfish
For the first time, the problem of the inflation of a nonlinear viscoelastic thick-walled spherical shell is considered. Specifically, the wall has quasilinear viscoelastic constitutive behaviour, which is of fundamental importance in a wide range of applications, particularly in the context of biological systems such as hollow viscera, including the lungs and bladder. Experiments are performed to demonstrate the efficacy of the model in fitting relaxation tests associated with the volumetric inflation of murine bladders. While the associated nonlinear elastic problem of inflation of a balloon has been studied extensively, there is a paucity of studies considering the equivalent nonlinear viscoelastic case. We show that, in contrast to the elastic scenario, the peak pressure associated with the inflation of a neo-Hookean balloon is not independent of the shear modulus of the medium. Moreover, a novel numerical technique is described in order to solve the nonlinear Volterra integral equation in space and time originating from the fundamental problem of inflation and deflation of a thick-walled nonlinear viscoelastic shell under imposed pressure.
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