The hyperelastic strain energy function for a Fung Orthotropic material is given by [33, 32] where Here, and , where are orthonormal vectors that define the initial direction of material axes. The orthotropic Lamé coefficients should be chosen such that the stiffness matrix, is positive definite.
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