Removing the saturation assumption in Bank-Weiser error estimator analysis in dimension three

in Applied Mathematics Letters (2020), 107

We provide a new argument proving the reliability of the Bank-Weiser estimator for Lagrange piecewise linear finite elements in both dimension two and three. The extension to dimension three constitutes ... [more ▼]

We provide a new argument proving the reliability of the Bank-Weiser estimator for Lagrange piecewise linear finite elements in both dimension two and three. The extension to dimension three constitutes the main novelty of our study. In addition, we present a numerical comparison of the Bank-Weiser and residual estimators for a three-dimensional test case. [less ▲]

Mechanical parameters identification of keloid and surrounding healthy skin using Digital Image Correlation measurements in vivo

Scientific Conference (2019, December 09)

The human skin behaves as an elastic membrane initially prestressed but not uniformly. The presence of anatomical sites favorable to the appearance of some tumors, a keloid in our case, while other sites ... [more ▼]

The human skin behaves as an elastic membrane initially prestressed but not uniformly. The presence of anatomical sites favorable to the appearance of some tumors, a keloid in our case, while other sites never develop them attests to the importance of the mechanical environment of the tissue. Thus, a mechanical characterization of the tumored skin is necessary to understand the keloid expansion from a mechanical point of view. Our case study consists in modeling a bi-material structure composed of a keloid skin surrounded by healthy skin located on upper left arm of a young female. From the experimental measurements in vivo, by combining force sensor, displacement sensor and Digital Image Correlation techniques, we perform a mechanical analysis to characterize the mechanical stress fields over the entire area and on the interface ‘healthy skin/keloid skin’. Since the mechanical behavior of the tumorous skin is unknown, many physical models can be implemented and assessed very easily inside the specific digital software to fit with the real data. Once a set of mechanical parameters for both the healthy skin and the keloid skin are identified, the stress fields around the keloid are calculated. Next steps consist in determining matching preferential directions in order to define as precisely as possible the specifications of a device for preventing the growth of keloids. [less ▲]

Uncertainty Quantification in Finite Element Models:Application to SoftTissue Biomechanics

Scientific Conference (2018, July 23)

We present probabilistic approaches aiming at the selection of the best constitutive model and to identify their parameters from experimental data. These parameters are always associated with some degree ... [more ▼]

We present probabilistic approaches aiming at the selection of the best constitutive model and to identify their parameters from experimental data. These parameters are always associated with some degree of uncertainty. It is therefore important to study how this statistical uncertainty in parameters propagates to a safety-critical quantity of interest in the output of a model. Efficient Monte Carlo methods based on variance reduction techniques (Sensitivity Derivatives Monte Carlo methods [Hauseux et al. 2017] and MultiLevel Monte Carlo [Giles 2015] methods) are employed to propagate this uncertainty for both random variables and random fields. Inverse and forward problems are strongly connected. In a bayesian setting [Matthies et al. 2017], developing methods that reduce the number of evaluations of the forward model to an absolute minimum to achieve convergence is crucial for tractable computations. Numerical results in the context of soft tissue biomechanics are presented and discussed. [less ▲]

Experimental and numerical assessment of the mechanics of keloid-skin composites undergoing large deformations

Scientific Conference (2017, August)