A continuum model for skeletal muscle contraction at homogeneous finite deformations
Autor: | Babak Sharifimajd, Jonas Stålhand |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
Materials science
Skeletal muscle contraction Quantitative Biology::Tissues and Organs Physics::Medical Physics Skeletal muscle Isometric exercise Models Biological Dissipation inequality Tibialis anterior muscle medicine Animals Clutch Strain-energy function Muscle Skeletal Annan maskinteknik Continuum model Continuum (topology) business.industry Mechanical Engineering Contractile element Mechanics Structural engineering Biomechanical Phenomena medicine.anatomical_structure Homogeneous Modeling and Simulation Dissipative system Other Mechanical Engineering Rabbits Stress Mechanical business Biotechnology Muscle Contraction |
Zdroj: | Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology. 12(5) |
ISSN: | 1617-7940 |
Popis: | The contractile force in skeletal muscle models is commonly postulated to be the isometric force multiplied by a set of experimentally motivated functions which account for the muscle’s active properties. Although both flexible and simple, this approach does not automatically guarantee a thermodynamically consistent behavior. In contrast, the continuum mechanical model proposed herein is derived from fundamental principles in mechanics and guarantees a dissipative behavior. Further, the contractile force is associated with a friction clutch which provides a simple and well-defined macroscopic model for cycling cross-bridges. To show the performance of the model, it is specialized to standard experiments for rabbit tibialis anterior muscle. The results show that the model is able to capture important characteristics of skeletal muscle. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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