Investigating stress-strain properties of in-vivo human skin using multiaxial loading experiments and finite element modeling

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 VII, Issue , 2004, Pages 5096-5099

  Kvistedal, Y A ^a   Nielsen, P M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; In vivo human skin; Multiaxial experiments

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CORRELATION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEMBRANES; OPTIMIZATION; STRESSES; TISSUE;

BIAXIAL LOADING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; IN-VIVO HUMAN SKIN; MULTIAXIAL EXPERIMENTS;

SKIN;

EID: 11144339416     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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