Characterisation of anisotropic and non-linear behaviour of human skin in vivo

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-27

  Meijer, R ^a   Douven, L F A ^b   Oomens, C W J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collagen; Mechanical properties; Numerical experimental method; Parameter estimation; Skin

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRES; DATA SETS; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HUMAN SKIN IN VIVO; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; NUMERICAL-EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; REACTION FORCES; SKIN MODEL;

ANISOTROPY; COLLAGEN; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SKIN;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 0042537909     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255849908907975     Document Type: Article

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