The use of contravariant tensor invariants to model damage in anisotropic soft tissues

Damage in soft biological tissues are a major domain of study as tissues may either undergo degradation with time or may experience in vivo failure during invasive procedures leading to a multitude of medical complications. Continuum damage models have been very successful recently to predict damage that can take place either due to fatigue loading, as a consequence of cyclic physiological loads or if the tissue is exposed to supra physiological...