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Electromechanical modelling of skeletal muscle contractions
Author(s) -
Sturmat Maike,
Böl Markus
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.201110055
Subject(s) - hyperelastic material , isotropy , skeletal muscle , coupling (piping) , physics , computer science , materials science , mechanics , finite element method , anatomy , mechanical engineering , engineering , thermodynamics , medicine , optics
In the present paper, the aim was to develop a numerical method for optimisation an existing mechanical material model [1] including muscle activation concerning the excitation of skeletal muscles. The modelling idea was a weak and non‐monolithic coupling of an electric current expressed by Ohm's law with a hyperelastic muscle model with transversal isotropic characteristics, see [2]. We confirmed the ability of the proposed model by applying on real reconstructed complex muscle geometry. (© 2011 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)