The shear behaviour of the rabbit medial collateral ligament

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 652-657

  Wilson, A ^a   Shelton, F ^a   Chaput, C ^b   Frank, C ^c   Butler, D ^a   Shrive, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Ligament; Mechanical testing; Modelling; Shear; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE;

RABBIT MEDICAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT; SOFT TISSUE;

LIGAMENTS;

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNEE LIGAMENT; LOADING TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOFT TISSUE;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT, KNEE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031225071     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(96)00032-X     Document Type: Article

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