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Soft tissues exhibit a nonlinear, essentially incompressible (visco-) elastic response; a key issue is the active nature of muscle fibres, in other words their ability to contract and relax in response to biochemical signals. Here we present a continuum model able to describe an active elastic medium.
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Nardinocchi, P., Teresi, L. On the Active Response of Soft Living Tissues. J Elasticity 88, 27–39 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-007-9111-7
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