Abstract:Abstract. Predicting the mechanical response of biological soft materials requires an understanding of the complex phenomena characterizing their microscale. In this work, we use an existing versatile framework, based on assumptions on the statistical distribution of biolpolymers at the network scale, for extending our previous entropic constitutive model of Worm-Like Chains networks to different deformation classes. Furthermore, we include the effect of molecules topological constraints by introducing an ener… Show more
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