期刊
ZAMM-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MATHEMATIK UND MECHANIK
卷 98, 期 12, 页码 2048-2071出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/zamm.201700302
关键词
adaptation; arteries; long-term response; mechanobiological equilibrium; stress
资金
- Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
- Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte of Spain [CAS17/00068]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of Spain [DPI2015-69801-R]
- National Institutes of Health [R01HL086418, R01HL105297, R01HL128602, U01HL116323]
Growth and remodeling of soft tissues is a dynamic process and several theoretical frameworks have been developed to analyze the time-dependent, mechanobiological and/or biomechanical responses of these tissues to changes in external loads. Importantly, general processes can often be conveniently separated into truly non-steady contributions and steady-state ones. Depending on characteristic times over which the external loads are applied, time-dependent models can sometimes be specialized to respective time-independent formulations that simplify the mathematical treatment without compromising the goodness of the particularized solutions. Very few studies have analyzed the long-term, steady-state responses of soft tissue growth and remodeling following a direct approach. Here, we derive a mechanobiologically equilibrated formulation that arises from a general constrained mixture model. We see that integral-type evolution equations that characterize these general models can be written in terms of an equivalent set of time-independent, nonlinear algebraic equations that can be solved efficiently to yield long-term outcomes of growth and remodeling processes in response to sustained external stimuli. We discuss the mathematical conditions, in terms of orders of magnitude, that yield the particularized equations and illustrate results numerically for general arterial mechano-adaptations.
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