Material Properties

The values of the material constants used in the passive, active, and electrical constitutive laws discussed in the following sections were initially set to those in the cited references; however, several values were modified during the model validation process to obtain quantitatively realistic (i.e., physiologically observed) behavior.

You can replace the material behavior of any region of the model with any of the Abaqus® built-in constitutive laws or with your own constitutive laws defined using user subroutines. Details on both approaches can be found in the Abaqus Materials Guide. The material names for the electrical analysis and mechanical analysis must use ABQ_CARDIAC_TISSUE and ABQ_CARDIAC_TISSUE_HYBRID, respectively, as the leading string.


In this section:

Passive Tissue Response
Active Tissue Response
Viscoelasticity
Tissue Electrical Response