...L. A. Spyrou; N. Aravas A three-dimensional constitutive model for muscle and tendon tissues is developed. Muscle and tendon are considered as composite materials that consist of fibers and the connective tissues and biofluids surrounding the fibers. The model is nonlinear, rate dependent...

...Xu Nie; Jen-I Cheng; Weinong W. Chen; Tusit Weerasooriya The stress-strain response of a porcine muscle along and perpendicular to the muscle fiber direction was characterized over a wide range of strain rates under uniaxial tension. A modified Kolsky tension bar was used to conduct the experiments...