Vascularized biological tissue has been shown to increase in stiffness with increased perfusion pressure. The interaction between blood in the vasculature and other tissue components can be modeled with a poroelastic, biphasic approach. The ability of this model to reproduce the pressure-driven stiffening behavior exhibited by some tissues depends on the choice of the mechanical constitutive relation, defined by the Helmholtz free energy density of the skeleton. We analyzed the behavior of a number of isotropic poroelastic constitutive relations by applying a swelling pressure, followed by homogeneous uniaxial or simple-shear deformation. Our results demonstrate that a strain-stiffening constitutive relation is required for a material to show pressure-driven stiffening, and that the strain-stiffening terms must be volume-dependent.
Issue Section:
Research Papers
Keywords:
poroelasticity,
constitutive relations,
garden hose effect,
perfusion pressure,
myocardium
Topics:
Biological tissues,
Constitutive equations,
Deformation,
Pressure,
Stiffness,
Fluids,
Stress
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