• A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue 

      Mihai, L Angela; Budday, Silvia; Holzapfel, Gerhard; Kuhl, Ellen; Goriely, Alain (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Experiments on brain samples under multiaxial loading have shown that human brain tissue is both extremely soft when compared to other biological tissues and characterized by a peculiar elastic response under combined shear ...
    • Modeling the porous and viscous responses of human brain tissue behavior 

      Comellas, Ester; Budday, Silvia; Pelteret, Jean-Paul; Holzapfel, Gerhard; Steinmann, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The biomechanical characterization of human brain tissue and the development of appropriate mechanical models is crucial to provide realistic computational predictions that can assist personalized treatment of neurological ...
    • Poro-Viscoelastic Effects During Biomechanical Testing of Human Brain Tissue 

      Greiner, Alexander; Reiter, Nina; Paulsen, Friedrich; Holzapfel, Gerhard; Steinmann, Paul; Comellas, Ester; Budday, Silvia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Brain tissue is one of the softest tissues in the human body and the quantification of its mechanical properties has challenged scientists over the past decades. Associated experimental results in the literature have been ...
    • Poro-viscoelastic material parameter identification of brain tissue-mimicking hydrogels 

      Kainz, Manuel P.; Greiner, Alexander; Hinrichsen, Jan; Kolb, Dagmar; Comellas, Ester; Steinmann, Paul; Budday, Silvia; Terzano, Michele; Holzapfel, Gerhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Understanding and characterizing the mechanical and structural properties of brain tissue is essential for developing and calibrating reliable material models. Based on the Theory of Porous Media, a novel nonlinear ...