A finite-element model is used to analyze the mechanical behavior of the left ventricle. The ventricle is treated as a heterogeneous, linearly elastic, thickwalled solid of revolution. The inner third of the ventricular wall is assumed to be transversely isotropic with a longitudinal Young's modulus, transverse modulus, and shear modulus of 60 g/cm, 30 g/cm, and 15.5 g/cm, respectively. In the ...

In this paper, the nonlocal elasticity theory is applied to study propagation of plane wave and Rayleigh-type surface in an incompressible, rotating transversely isotropic material. The governing equations motion for rotating, elastic medium are specialized a plane. assumed about axis perpendicular transverse isotropy taken surface. first derive velocity equation homogeneous wave. along with tr...

In this paper, we model and compute flow-induced mechanical properties of nematic polymer nanocomposites, consisting of transversely isotropic rigid spheroids in an isotropic matrix. Our goal is to fill a gap in the theoretical literature between random and perfectly aligned spheroidal composites (Odegard et al. in Compos. Sci. Technol. 63, 1671–1687, 2003; Gusev et al. in Adv. Eng. Mater. 4(12...

Concise and numerically feasible dynamic and static Green's functions are obtained in dyadic form by solving the wave equation and the equilibrium equation with general source distribution in transversely isotropic (TI) media. The wave and equilibrium equations are solved by using an extended version of the Kupradze method originally developed for isotropic media. The dynamic Green's function i...

Abstract For a given class of materials, universal deformations are those that can be maintained in the absence body forces by applying only boundary tractions. Universal play crucial role nonlinear elasticity. To date, their classification has been accomplished for homogeneous isotropic solids following Ericksen’s seminal work, and anisotropic inhomogeneous our recent works. In this paper we s...

A finite-element model is used to analyze the mechanical behavior of the left ventricle. The ventricle is treated as a heterogeneous, linearly elastic, thickwalled solid of revolution. The inner third of the ventricular wall is assumed to be transversely isotropic with a longitudinal Young's modulus, transverse modulus, and shear modulus of 60 g/cm, 30 g/cm, and 15.5 g/cm, respectively. In the ...