Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-12-03
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 68, 1 (2007) 80-97
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
18 pages
Scientific paper
10.1137/060664483
We present a constitutive model capturing some of the experimentally observed features of soft biological tissues: nonlinear viscoelasticity, nonlinear elastic anisotropy, and nonlinear viscous anisotropy. For this model we derive the equation governing rectilinear shear motion in the plane of the fiber reinforcement; it is a nonlinear partial differential equation for the shear strain. Specializing the equation to the quasi-static processes of creep and recovery, we find that usual (exponential-like) time growth and decay exist in general, but that for certain ranges of values for the material parameters and for the angle between the shearing direction and the fiber direction, some anomalous behaviors emerge. These include persistence of a nonzero strain in the recovery experiment, strain growth in recovery, strain decay in creep, disappearance of the solution after a finite time, and similar odd comportments. For the full dynamical equation of motion, we find kink (traveling wave) solutions which cannot reach their assigned asymptotic limit.
Destrade Michel
Saccomandi Giuseppe
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