Narrow Results

Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the theories of extended continuum mechanics. These allow for a finer and relatively simple modeling of physical phenomena occurring on the microscopic level. The Eringen’s micromorphic medium belongs to this class and allows accounting for the material microstructure. A subclass of this model was applied to model the mechanical behavior of cardiac tissue. With the aid of a specifically developed numerical tool, the validity of the approach is demonstrated using different myocardial infarct scenario.