A regularised continuum damage model based on the mesoscopic scale for soft tissue

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

卷:58

Article

Blanco, Sergio¹  Andres Polindara, Cesar¹  Maria Goicolea, Jose¹ 

[1] TU Madrid, Sch Civil Engn, Dept Continuum Mech & Struct, Madrid 28040, Spain

关键词: Constitutive modelling;    Damage;    Collagen;    Fibril;    Cross-link density;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2014.12.013

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Material properties of soft fibrous tissues are highly conditioned by the hierarchical structure of this kind of composites. Collagen based tissues present, at decreasing length scales, a complex framework of fibres, fibrils, tropocollagen molecules and amino-acids. Understanding the mechanical behaviour at nano-scale level is critical to accurately incorporate this structural information in phenomenological damage models. In this work we derive a relationship between the mechanical and geometrical properties of the fibril constituents and the soft tissue material parameters at macroscopic scale. A Hodge-Petruska two-dimensional model has been used to describe the fibrils as staggered arrays of tropocollagen molecules. After a mechanical characterisation of each of the fibril components, two fibril failures modes have been defined related with two planes of weakness. A phenomenological continuous damage model with regularised softening was presented along with meso-structurally based definitions for its material parameters. Finally, numerical analysis at fibril, fibre and tissue levels are presented to show the capabilities of the model. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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