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5 lectures on: Coordinated contractions of the gastrointestinal tract are essential for the breakdown of food and absorption of nutrients. This lectures will trace the evolution of experimental techniques, from historical foundations to state-of-the-art

5 lectures on: Multiscale modeling of soft tissues. Asymptotic homogenization schemes for finite-deformation continuum mechanics and poromechanics. Microstructural descriptions, coarse-scale problem formulation and upscaling relations. Pulmonary mechani

5 lectures on: Mechanical behavior of cardiovascular tissues using state-of-the-art computational strategies and multi-objective formulations. Modelling of arterial and cardiac tissues under complex physiological loading: nonlinear anisotropy, parameter

5 lectures on: Mechanics of nonlinear soft materials such as elastomers and biological soft tissues. Constitutive modelling including the effects of incompressibility, strain stiffening and anisotropy. Small motions superimposed on large deformations. U

5 lectures on: Foundations of active electromechanics in soft tissues, from basic electrophysiology toward advanced thermodynamically consistent constitutive formulations. Selected open problems in chemo-mechanics of excitable system and generalized rea

5 lectures on: Introduction to the principles at the basis of phenomenological and micromechanical models of soft biological tissues: variability, specificity, age dependence. Definition of biomechanical material properties. Heterogeneity and anisotropy