1. The effective elastic properties of human trabecular bone may be approximated using micro-finite element analyses of embedded volume elements

   • Karol Daszkiewicz
   • Ghislain Maquer
   • Philippe K. Zysset

   Original Paper 26 October 2016 Pages: 731 - 742

   

2. A two-muscle, continuum-mechanical forward simulation of the upper limb

   • O. Röhrle
   • M. Sprenger
   • S. Schmitt

   Original Paper 11 November 2016 Pages: 743 - 762

   

3. Multiphoton microscopy observations of 3D elastin and collagen fiber microstructure changes during pressurization in aortic media

   • Shukei Sugita
   • Takeo Matsumoto

   Original Paper 22 November 2016 Pages: 763 - 773

   

4. The choice of a constitutive formulation for modeling limb flexion-induced deformations and stresses in the human femoropopliteal arteries of different ages

   • Anastasia Desyatova
   • Jason MacTaggart
   • Alexey Kamenskiy

   Original Paper 21 November 2016 Pages: 775 - 785

   

5. Wall shear stress exposure time: a Lagrangian measure of near-wall stagnation and concentration in cardiovascular flows

   • Amirhossein Arzani
   • Alberto M. Gambaruto
   • Shawn C. Shadden

   Original Paper 17 November 2016 Pages: 787 - 803

   

6. An information-based machine learning approach to elasticity imaging

   • Cameron Hoerig
   • Jamshid Ghaboussi
   • Michael F. Insana

   Original Paper 18 November 2016 Pages: 805 - 822

   

7. The importance of nonlinear tissue modelling in finite element simulations of infant head impacts

   • Xiaogai Li
   • Håkan Sandler
   • Svein Kleiven

   Original Paper Open access 21 November 2016 Pages: 823 - 840

   

8. Altered architecture and cell populations affect bone marrow mechanobiology in the osteoporotic human femur

   • Thomas A. Metzger
   • Ted J. Vaughan
   • Glen L. Niebur

   Original Paper 22 November 2016 Pages: 841 - 850

   

9. A resolved two-way coupled CFD/6-DOF approach for predicting embolus transport and the embolus-trapping efficiency of IVC filters

   • Kenneth I. Aycock
   • Robert L. Campbell
   • Brent A. Craven

   Original Paper 30 November 2016 Pages: 851 - 869

   

10. Verification of a virtual fields method to extract the mechanical properties of human optic nerve head tissues in vivo

    • Liang Zhang
    • Sri Gowtham Thakku
    • Michael J. A. Girard

    Original Paper 01 December 2016 Pages: 871 - 887

    

11. Homogenized constrained mixture models for anisotropic volumetric growth and remodeling

    • F. A. Braeu
    • A. Seitz
    • C. J. Cyron

    Original Paper 05 December 2016 Pages: 889 - 906

    

12. On the characterization of the heterogeneous mechanical response of human brain tissue

    • Antonio E. Forte
    • Stephen M. Gentleman
    • Daniele Dini

    Original Paper Open access 08 December 2016 Pages: 907 - 920

    

13. Effects of stiffness and volume on the transit time of an erythrocyte through a slit

    • Sara Salehyar
    • Qiang Zhu

    Original Paper 26 November 2016 Pages: 921 - 931

    

14. A new multiscale micromechanical model of vertebral trabecular bones

    • Rami Haj-Ali
    • Eyass Massarwa
    • Hans-Joachim Wilke

    Original Paper 02 December 2016 Pages: 933 - 946

    

15. Modeling viscous dissipation during vocal fold contact: the influence of tissue viscosity and thickness with implications for hydration

    • Byron D. Erath
    • Matías Zañartu
    • Sean D. Peterson

    Original Paper 21 December 2016 Pages: 947 - 960

    

16. Metastatic breast cancer cells adhere strongly on varying stiffness substrates, initially without adjusting their morphology

    • Sonbula Massalha
    • Daphne Weihs

    Original Paper 22 December 2016 Pages: 961 - 970

    

17. Improved identifiability of myocardial material parameters by an energy-based cost function

    • Anastasia Nasopoulou
    • Anoop Shetty
    • Steven Niederer

    Original Paper Open access 10 February 2017 Pages: 971 - 988

    

18. Prediction of femoral strength using 3D finite element models reconstructed from DXA images: validation against experiments

    • Lorenzo Grassi
    • Sami P. Väänänen
    • Hanna Isaksson

    Original Paper Open access 21 December 2016 Pages: 989 - 1000

    

19. Simulation studies of the role of esophageal mucosa in bolus transport

    • Wenjun Kou
    • John E. Pandolfino
    • Neelesh A. Patankar

    Original Paper 03 January 2017 Pages: 1001 - 1009

    

20. A validated model of passive skeletal muscle to predict force and intramuscular pressure

    • Benjamin B Wheatley
    • Gregory M Odegard
    • Tammy L Haut Donahue

    Original Paper 31 December 2016 Pages: 1011 - 1022

    

21. Heterogeneous nanomechanical properties of type I collagen in longitudinal direction

    • Ming Tang
    • Tong Li
    • YuanTong Gu

    Original Paper 07 January 2017 Pages: 1023 - 1033

    

22. In silico analysis of the anti-hypertensive drugs impact on myocardial oxygen balance

    • A. Guala
    • D. Leone
    • L. Ridolfi

    Original Paper 09 January 2017 Pages: 1035 - 1047

    

23. Predicting cell viability within tissue scaffolds under equiaxial strain: multi-scale finite element model of collagen–cardiomyocytes constructs

    • Mostafa Elsaadany
    • Karen Chang Yan
    • Eda Yildirim-Ayan

    Original Paper 16 January 2017 Pages: 1049 - 1063

    

24. Reversible stress softening in layered rat esophagus in vitro after potassium chloride activation

    • Hongbo Jiang
    • Donghua Liao
    • Hans Gregersen

    Original Paper 23 January 2017 Pages: 1065 - 1075

    

25. A study of hyperelastic models for predicting the mechanical behavior of extensor apparatus

    • Nahid Elyasi
    • Kimia Karimi Taheri
    • Ali Karimi Taheri

    Original Paper 16 January 2017 Pages: 1077 - 1093