Nele Famaey

Feasibility study of fluid-structure-growth modelling in the context of endogenous tissue restoration

This study develops and validates two fluid-structure-growth models to predict long-term outcomes of vascular grafts in endogenous tissue restoration.

The Role of Smooth Muscle Cell Heterogeneity in Cerebral Autoregulation: A Multi-Scale Physics-Based Modeling Study

This study uses a multi-scale physics-based model to test if smooth muscle cell heterogeneity explains vessel-size-dependent pressure-flow responses in cerebral autoregulation.

Mechanical Drivers of Glycosaminoglycan Content Changes in Intact and Damaged Human Cartilage

This study develops a mechanoregulatory model to predict how mechanical loading affects glycosaminoglycan content in human cartilage, showing increased GAG production in damaged cartilage under physiological loading.

Community Challenge towards Consensus on Characterization of Biological Tissue: C4Bio's First Findings

This study assesses inter-laboratory variability in mechanical property characterization of porcine aorta through two testing rounds, highlighting persistent discrepancies despite protocol standardization.

Stretching the Limits: From Planar-Biaxial Stress-Stretch to Arterial Pressure-Diameter

This study translates lab-based arterial stress-stretch data into clinically relevant pressure-diameter predictions using a fiber-reinforced model and systematic validation.

Probing mycelium mechanics and taste: The moist and fibrous signature of fungi steak

This study characterizes the mechanical and sensory properties of fungi-based steak, finding it to be moist, viscous, and fibrous, with unique anisotropic behavior under dynamic compression.

Constitutive neural networks for main pulmonary arteries: Discovering the undiscovered

Constitutive artificial neural networks trained on biaxial tests of 8 ovine main pulmonary artery samples consistently discover a two-term model: exponential first-invariant plus quadratic fifth-invariant terms.