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Parikh S, Giudici A, Huberts W, Delhaas T, Bidar E, Spronck B, Reesink K. Significance of Dynamic Axial Stretching on Estimating Biomechanical Behavior and Properties of the Human Ascending Aorta. Ann Biomed Eng 2024; 52:2485-2495. [PMID: 38836979 PMCID: PMC11329543 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-024-03537-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/06/2024]
Abstract
Contrary to most vessels, the ascending thoracic aorta (ATA) not only distends but also elongates in the axial direction. The purpose of this study is to investigate the biomechanical behavior of the ascending thoracic aorta (ATA) in response to dynamic axial stretching during the cardiac cycle. In addition, the implications of neglecting this dynamic axial stretching when estimating the constitutive model parameters of the ATA are investigated. The investigations were performed through in silico simulations by assuming a Gasser-Ogden-Holzapfel (GOH) constitutive model representative of ATA tissue material. The GOH model parameters were obtained from biaxial tests performed on four human ATA tissues in a previous study. Pressure-diameter curves were simulated as synthetic data to assess the effect of neglecting dynamic axial stretching on estimating constitutive model parameters. Our findings reveal a significant increase in axial stress (~ 16%) and stored strain energy (~ 18%) in the vessel when dynamic axial stretching is considered, as opposed to assuming a fixed axial stretch. All but one artery showed increased volume compliance while considering a dynamic axial stretching condition. Furthermore, we observe a notable difference in the estimated constitutive model parameters when dynamic axial stretching of the ATA is neglected, compared to the ground truth model parameters. These results underscore the critical importance of accounting for axial deformations when conducting in vivo biomechanical characterization of the ascending thoracic aorta.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shaiv Parikh
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- GROW School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart & Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie Medical School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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Sokolis DP. Layer-Specific Properties of the Human Infra-Renal Aorta During Aging Considering Pre/Post-Failure Damage. J Biomech Eng 2024; 146:021003. [PMID: 38019302 DOI: 10.1115/1.4064146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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There is little information on the layer-specific failure properties of the adult human abdominal aorta, and there has been no quantification of postfailure damage. Infra-renal aortas were thus taken from forty-seven autopsy subjects and cut into 870 intact-wall and layer strips that underwent uni-axial-tensile testing. Intact-wall failure stress did not differ significantly (p > 0.05) from the medial value longitudinally, nor from the intimal and medial values circumferentially, which were the lowest recorded values. Intact-wall failure stretch did not differ (p > 0.05) from the medial value in either direction. Intact-wall prefailure stretch (defined as failure stretch-stretch at the initiation of the concave phase of the stress-stretch response) did not differ (p > 0.05) from the intimal and medial values, and intact-wall postfailure stretch (viz., full-rupture stretch-failure stretch) did not differ (p > 0.05) from the adventitial value since the adventitia was the last layer to rupture, being most extensible albeit under residual tension. Intact-wall failure stress and stretch declined from 20 to 60 years, explained by steady declines throughout the lifetime of their medial counterparts, implicating beyond 60 years the less age-varying failure properties of the intima under minimal residual compression. The positive correlation of postfailure stretch with age counteracted the declining failure stretch, serving as a compensatory mechanism against rupture. Hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease adversely affected the intact-wall and layer-specific failure stretches while increasing stiffness.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dimitrios P Sokolis
- Laboratory of Biomechanics, Center of Clinical, Experimental Surgery, and Translational Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephesiou Street, Athens 115 27, Greece
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Skacel P, Bursa J. Need for transverse strain data for fitting constitutive models of arterial tissue to uniaxial tests. J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 2024; 150:106194. [PMID: 38091922 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.106194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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The study deals with the process of estimation of material parameters from uniaxial test data of arterial tissue and focuses on the role of transverse strains. Two fitting strategies are analyzed and their impact on the predictive and descriptive capabilities of the resulting model is evaluated. The standard fitting procedure (strategy A) based on longitudinal stress-strain curves is compared with the enhanced approach (strategy B) taking also the transverse strain test data into account. The study is performed on a large set of material data adopted from literature and for a variety of constitutive models developed for fibrous soft tissues. The standard procedure (A) ignoring the transverse strain test data is found rather hazardous, leading often to unrealistic predictions of the model exhibiting auxetic behaviour. In contrast, the alternative fitting method (B) ensures a realistic strain response of the model and is proved to be superior since it does not require any significant demands of computational effort or additional testing. The results presented in this paper show that even the artificial transverse strain data (i.e., not measured during testing but generated ex post based on assumed Poisson's ratio) are much less hazardous than total disregard of the transverse strain response.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pavel Skacel
- Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2896/2, 616 69, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 2896/2, 616 69, Brno, Czech Republic
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