A continuum-mechanical skeletal muscle model including actin-titin interaction predicts stable contractions on the descending limb of the force-length relation

• Thomas Heidlauf ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Heidlauf, Thomas Klotz

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Mechanics (CE), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart Research Centre for Simulation Technology (SRC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Thomas Klotz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Heidlauf, Thomas Klotz

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Mechanics (CE), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart Research Centre for Simulation Technology (SRC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0503-9815

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• Christian Rode,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Motion Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany

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• Tobias Siebert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sport and Motion Science, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4090-5480

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• Oliver Röhrle

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roehrle@simtech.uni-stuttgart.de

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Mechanics (CE), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart Research Centre for Simulation Technology (SRC SimTech), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1934-6525

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