C. M. Quick, J. K-J. Li, and A. Noordergraaf
13th Annual Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference,
Washington, DC, 1994
Investigators have developed a variety of models to describe the behavior of muscular tissue. The most popular of them became a model consisting of three elements, equivalent to two springs and a dashpot. All models of this type are descriptive in the sense that model elements were not relatable to the tissue's structural properties. This report offers a possibility for the missing relation. In view of the approximations and simplifications made to provide this relationship, it is not surprising that experimental tests of the three-element model were found unsatisfactory.