Abstract
In this work, we propose a mathematical model of hyper-viscoelastic problems applied to soft biological tissues, along with an energy-consistent numerical approximation. We first present the general problem in a dynamic regime, with certain types of dissipative constitutive assumptions. We then provide a numerical approximation of this problem, with the main objective of respecting energy consistency during contact in adequacy with the continuous framework. Given the presence of friction or viscosity, a dissipation of mechanical energy is expected. Moreover, we are interested in the numerical simulation of the non-smooth and non-linear problem considered, and more particularly to the optimization of Newton's semi-smooth method and Primal Dual Active Set (PDAS) approaches. Finally, we test such numerical schemes on academic and real-life scenarios, the latter representing the contact deployment of a stainless-steel stent in an arterial tissue.