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    An inverse fitting strategy to determine the constrained mixture model parameters: application in patient-specific aorta
    (2023) Navarrete, Alvaro; Utrera, Andres; Rivera, Eugenio; Latorre, Marcos; Celentano, Diego J.; Garcia-Herrera, Claudio M.
    The Constrained Mixture Model (CMM) is a novel approach to describe arterial wall mechanics, whose formulation is based on a referential physiological state. The CMM considers the arterial wall as a mixture of load-bearing constituents, each of them with characteristic mass fraction, material properties, and deposition stretch levels from its stress-free state to the in-vivo configuration. Although some reports of this model successfully assess its capabilities, they barely explore experimental approaches to model patient-specific scenarios. In this sense, we propose an iterative fitting procedure of numerical-experimental nature to determine material parameters and deposition stretch values. To this end, the model has been implemented in a finite element framework, and it is calibrated using reported experimental data of descending thoracic aorta. The main results obtained from the proposed procedure consist of a set of material parameters for each constituent. Moreover, a relationship between deposition stretches and residual strain measurements (opening angle and axial stretch) has been numerically proved, establishing a strong consistency between the model and experimental data.