Identification of nonlinear hyperelastic material parameters for healthy myocardial tissue via an inverse method based

Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.) © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2

M. Essack & S. Skatulla CERECAM and the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, South Africa

1 INTRODUCTION

2 MODELLING THE CARDIAC CYCLE

2.1 Passive filling phase

3 MATERIAL PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION

4 BENCHMARKING AND TESTING OF ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATIONS

4.1 Results of numerical simulations

5 CONCLUSIONS

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