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Gerhard A. Holzapfel

Gerhard A. Holzapfel

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Austria
2026
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Materials Science
Austria
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
99
Citations
42957
World Ranking
66
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2021 - William Prager Medal
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Gerhard A. Holzapfel is affiliated with Graz University of Technology in Austria. Their work spans multiple disciplines primarily within Medicine and Engineering, focusing notably on subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research portfolio includes extensive studies on Elasticity and Material Modeling, which accounts for the majority of their work. Other prominent research topics involve Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics, Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies.

Holzapfel has contributed to multiple papers in notable journals including:

  • Detection, segmentation, simulation and visualization of aortic dissections: A review (2020, Medical Image Analysis)
  • A viscoelastic model for human myocardium (2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe))
  • Microstructural and mechanical characterization of the layers of human descending thoracic aortas (2021, Acta Biomaterialia)
  • Modeling the porous and viscous responses of human brain tissue behavior (2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering)
  • A phase-field model for fracture of unidirectional fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites (2020, Computational Mechanics)

The most frequent publication venues for Holzapfel's work include:

  • Acta Biomaterialia (30 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (20 publications)
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (13 publications)
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (6 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)

Within their collaborative network, Holzapfel has partnered extensively with several researchers, including Gerhard Sommer with 37 coauthored works, Chung-Hao Lee with 19, Michele Terzano with 17, Malte Rolf-Pissarczyk with 16, and Devin W. Laurence with 14 coauthored publications.

Holzapfel has been recognized with awards such as the William Prager Medal in 2021 and has been named a member of the Academia Europaea since 2014. In addition, they hold membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • A new constitutive framework for arterial wall mechanics and a comparative study of material models

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Thomas C. Gasser;Ray W. Ogden

  • Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: A Continuum Approach for Engineering

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel

  • Hyperelastic modelling of arterial layers with distributed collagen fibre orientations

    T. Christian Gasser;Ray W Ogden;Gerhard A Holzapfel;Gerhard A Holzapfel

  • Determination of layer-specific mechanical properties of human coronary arteries with nonatherosclerotic intimal thickening and related constitutive modeling

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Gerhard Sommer;Christian T. Gasser;Peter Regitnig

  • Constitutive modelling of passive myocardium: A structurally-based framework for material characterization

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Ray W. Ogden

  • A viscoelastic model for fiber-reinforced composites at finite strains: Continuum basis, computational aspects and applications

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Thomas C. Gasser

  • Constitutive modelling of arteries

    Gerhard Holzapfel;Gerhard Holzapfel;Raymond William Ogden

  • Mechanical characterization of human brain tissue.

    S Budday;Gerhard Sommer;C Birkl;C Langkammer

  • A structural model for the viscoelastic behavior of arterial walls: Continuum formulation and finite element analysis

    Gerhard Holzapfel;Thomas Gasser;Michael Stadler

  • Anisotropic mechanical properties of tissue components in human atherosclerotic plaques.

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Gerhard Sommer;Peter Regitnig

  • Single lamellar mechanics of the human lumbar anulus fibrosus

    Gerhard Holzapfel;Christian Schulze-Bauer;G. Feigl;Peter Regitnig

  • Perspectives on biological growth and remodeling

    D. Ambrosi;G.A. Ateshian;E.M. Arruda;S.C. Cowin

  • Brain tissue deforms similarly to filled elastomers and follows consolidation theory

    Giulia Franceschini;Davide Bigoni;Peter Regitnig;Gerhard Holzapfel

  • Determination of material models for arterial walls from uniaxial extension tests and histological structure.

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel

  • A polyconvex framework for soft biological tissues. Adjustment to experimental data

    D. Balzani;P. Neff;J. Schröder;G.A. Holzapfel

  • Fifty Shades of Brain: A Review on the Mechanical Testing and Modeling of Brain Tissue

    Silvia Budday;Timothy C. Ovaert;Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Paul Steinmann;Paul Steinmann

  • Mechanics of the brain: perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

    A Alain Goriely;Mgd Marc Geers;GA Gerhard Holzapfel;J Jayaratnam Jayamohan

  • Determination of the layer-specific distributed collagen fibre orientations in human thoracic and abdominal aortas and common iliac arteries

    Andreas J. Schriefl;Georg Zeindlinger;David M. Pierce;Peter Regitnig

  • Mechanics, mechanobiology, and modeling of human abdominal aorta and aneurysms.

    Jay D. Humphrey;Gerhard Holzapfel;Gerhard Holzapfel

  • Comparison of a multi-layer structural model for arterial walls with a fung-type model, and issues of material stability.

    Gerhard A. Holzapfel;Thomas C. Gasser;Ray W. Ogden

  • A new constitutive framework for arterial wall mechanics and a comparative study of material models

    Gerhard Holzapfel;Thomas Gasser;Ray W. Ogden

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray W. Ogden
Ray W. Ogden University of Glasgow
Günter Brenn
Günter Brenn Graz University of Technology
Ellen Kuhl
Ellen Kuhl Stanford University
Paul Steinmann
Paul Steinmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Thomas Eriksson
Thomas Eriksson Chalmers University of Technology
Jay D. Humphrey
Jay D. Humphrey Yale University
Edoardo Mazza
Edoardo Mazza ETH Zurich
Horst Bischof
Horst Bischof Graz University of Technology
Gernot Plank
Gernot Plank Medical University of Graz
Pascal Verdonck
Pascal Verdonck Ghent University

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