Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Introduction
A general constitutive theory of the stress-modulated growth of biomaterials is presented in this chapter with a particular accent given to pseudoelastic living tissues. The governing equations of the mechanics of solids with a growing mass are derived within the framework of finite deformation continuum thermodynamics. The analysis of stress-modulated growth of living soft tissues, bones, and other biomaterials has been an important research topic in biomechanics during past several decades. Early work includes a study of the relationship between the mechanical loads and uniform growth by Hsu (1968) and a study of the mass deposition and resorption processes in a living bone by Cowin and Hegedus (1976a, 1976b). The latter work provided a set of governing equations for the so-called adaptive elasticity theory, in which an elastic material adopts its structure to applied loading. In contrast to hard tissues which undergo only small deformations, soft tissues such as blood vessels, tendons, or ligaments can experience large deformations. Fundamental contributions were made by Fung and his co-workers (e.g., Fung 1993, 1995) in the analytical description of the volumetrically distributed mass growth and by Skalak et al. (1982) for the mass growth by deposition or resorption on a surface. Hard tissues, such as bones and teeth, grow by deposition on a surface (apposition). Changes in porosity, mineral content and mass density are because of internal remodeling. Soft tissues grow by volumetric, also referred to as interstitial, growth.
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