Fibre and extracellular matrix contributions to passive forces in human skeletal muscles: An experimental based constitutive law for numerical modelling of the passive element in the classical Hill-type three element model

• Lorenzo Marcucci ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lorenzo.marcucci@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9542-4417

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• Michela Bondì,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Giulia Randazzo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Carlo Reggiani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Kinesiology Research Center, Garibaldijeva, Koper, Slovenia

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• Arturo N. Natali,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Piero G. Pavan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Mechanics of Biological Materials, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Fondazione Istituto di Ricerca Pediatrica Città della Speranza, Corso Stati Uniti 4, Padova, Italy

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