Viscoelastic response of the finger pad to incremental tangential displacements

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1441-1449

  Pataky, Todd C ^a,b   Latash, Mark L ^a   Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biomechanics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Finger pad; Fingers; Material properties; Stiffness; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMECHANICS; FUNCTIONS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STIFFNESS; VISCOELASTICITY;

DISTAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINTS (DIP); FINGER PADS; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINTS (PIP); VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE;

BIOMATERIALS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RIGIDITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELASTICITY; FINGERS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 19744371687     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.07.004     Document Type: Article

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