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. 2015 Sep 7;137(10):1010101–10101011. doi: 10.1115/1.4031419

Table 1.

Material coefficient sets for passive myocardium. In some cases, material coefficients are repeated to produce the desired material symmetry depending on one of the four simulation approaches (cases (ii) and (iii) have identical coefficients, but differ in structural arrangement).

c (kPa) c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6
Isotropic 0.35 9.2 9.2 9.2 7.4 7.4 7.4
Trans. isotropica 1.3 9.2 2 2 3.7 2 3.7
Orthotropic 0.75 20.2 1.4 0.3 8.1 6.0 3.7
a

Coefficients obtained from perfused rat heart data [45].