@article {Simula.SC.662,
	title = {On Modelling and Analysis of Healthy and Pathological Human Mitral Valves: Two Case Studies},
	journal = {Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials},
	volume = {3},
	number = {2},
	year = {2010},
	month = {February},
	pages = {167-177},
	abstract = {Biomechanical data and related constitutive modelling of the mitral apparatus served as a basis for finite element analyses to better understand the physiology of mitral valves in health and disease. Human anterior and posterior leaflets and chordae tendinae from an elderly heart showing no disease and a hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathic heart (HOCM) were mechanically tested by means of uniaxial cyclic extension tests under quasi-static conditions. Experimental data for the leaflets and the chordae tendinae showed highly nonlinear mechanical behaviours and the leaflets were anisotropic. The mitral valve from the HOCM heart exhibited a significantly softer behaviour than the valve from the healthy one. A comparison with porcine data was included because many previous mitral modelling studies have been based on porcine data. Some differences in mechanical response were observed. Material parameters for hyperelastic, transversely isotropic constitutive laws were determined. The experimental data and the related model parameters were used in two finite element studies to investigate the effects of the material properties on the mitral valve response during systole. The analyses showed that during systole the mitral valve from the HOCM heart bulged into the left atrium by taking on the shape of a balloon, whereas the anterior leaflet of the healthy valve remained in the left ventricle.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jmbbm.2009.05.004},
	author = {Victorien Emile {Prot} and Bj{\o}rn H. {Skallerud} and Sommer, Gerhard and Gerhard A. {Holzapfel}}
}
@misc {Simula.sc.910,
	title = {Effects on Connective Tissue Pathologies on Mitral Valve Response},
	howpublished = {Talk at the Conference on Modeling of heterogeneous materials with application in construction and biomedical engineering, Prague},
	year = {2007},
	month = {June},
	author = {Victorien Emile {Prot} and Bj{\o}rn H. {Skallerud} and Gerhard A. {Holzapfel}}
}
@article {Simula.sc.876,
	title = {Transversely Isotropic Membrane Shells With Application to Mitral Valve Mechanics. Constitutive Modelling and Finite Element Implementation},
	journal = {International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering},
	volume = {71},
	number = {8},
	year = {2007},
	month = {August},
	pages = {987-1008},
	doi = {10.1002/nme.1983},
	author = {Victorien Emile {Prot} and Bj{\o}rn H. {Skallerud} and Gerhard A. {Holzapfel}}
}
@inbook {Simula.SC.346,
	title = {Characterization and Modeling of Growth and Remodeling in Tendon and Soft Tissue Constructs},
	booktitle = {Mechanics of Biological Tissue},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {63-75},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	chapter = {5},
	abstract = {Separate theories of growth and remodeling have been outlined to illustrate that remodeling may occur at constant mass and is a configurational change whereas growth involves a change in the concentration of species. Engineered tendon constructs were generated for growth and remodeling studies. The constructs demonstrate mechanically responsive cells, grow and remain viable in culture for several weeks. They are excellent in vitro models for growth studies.},
	isbn = {978-3-540-25194-1},
	doi = {10.1007/3-540-31184-X\_5},
	author = {Ellen M. {Arruda} and Calve, Sarah and Garikipati, Krishna and Grosh, Karl and Narayanan, Harish},
	editor = {Gerhard A. {Holzapfel} and R. W. {Ogden}}
}
