Description
Soft biological tissues (e.g. skin, internal organs, etc.) have many commonmechanical features: their response to applied forces is markedly nonlinear
and time-dependent; they allow for large strains; they all exhibit the
presence of residual stresses (i.e. they are still under stress when external
loads are removed, because of a build-up of forces due to growth and
remodelling). This series of lectures focussed on different aspects of soft
tissues mechanics, ranging from the constitutive modelling (elastic and
viscoelastic) and modelling of growth processes in soft tissues.