Stéphane Avril

A VFM approach for identifying material parameters and data-driven constitutive models for biphasic hyperelasticity of soft biological tissues

Material characterization of heterogenous atherosclerotic arteries with the Virtual Fields Method.

This work presents the first implementation of VFM for the material characterization of heterogeneous atherosclerotic plaques, and achieves high accuracy in estimating the mechanical properties of individual plaque components, even when realistic levels of noise in the ultrasound data were considered.