The influence of fibril organization on the mechanical behaviour of articular cartilage

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2075, 2006, Pages 3301-3322

  Lei, Fulin ^a   Szeri, Andras Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Fibril orientation; Tension compression nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750537809     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1732     Document Type: Article

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