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Active and passive behaviors of soft tissues: Pelvic floor muscles

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: A new active-contraction visco-elastic numerical model of the pelvic floor (skeletal) muscle is presented. Our model includes all elements that represent the muscle constitutive behavior, contraction and relaxation. In contrast with the previous models, the activation function can be null. The complete equations are shown and exactly linearized. Small verification and validation tests are performed and the pelvis is modeled using the data from the intra-abdominal pressure tests

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Pelvic floor skeletal muscle Active behavior Shell model Geometrically nonlinear

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Pato, M P M, Areias P. Active and passive behaviors of soft tissues: Pelvic floor muscles.International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 2010; 26 (6): 667-680.

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John Wiley & Sons LTD

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