Welcome to my private page. I develop mathematical models that describe the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials. A particular emphasis is placed on the modeling of biological soft tissue.

Five Selected Publications

• H. Topol, N. K. Jha, H. Demirkoparan, M. Stoffel, J. Merodio: Bulging of inflated membranes made of fiber reinforced materials with different natural configurations, Eur. J. Mech. A/Solids 96, 104670 (2022), Open Access. →BibTeX.
  

• H. Topol, H. Nazari, M. Stoffel, B. Markert, J. Lacalle, J. Merodio: Instabilities of an inflated and extended doubly fiber-reinforced cylindrical membrane under damage processes and different natural configurations of its constituents with application to abnormal artery dilation, Thin Walled Struct. 197: 111562 (2024). →BibTex.
  

• H. Topol, H. Demirkoparan, and T. J. Pence:  Fibrillar Collagen: A Review of the Mechanical Modeling of Strain Mediated Enzymatic Turnover, Appl. Mech. Rev. 73: 050802 (2021). →BibTeX.
  

• H. Topol, H. Demirkoparan, T. J. Pence: Morphoelastic fiber remodeling in pressurized thick-walled cylinders with application to soft tissue collagenous tubes, Eur. J. Mech. A/Solids 77: 103800 (2019). →BibTeX.
  

• I. V. Andrianov, H. Topol, and V. V. Danishevskyy: Asymptotic analysis of heat transfer in composite materials with nonlinear thermal properties, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer 111: 736-754 (2017). →BibTeX.