Viscoelastic properties of the ovine posterior spinal ligaments are strain dependent

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-102

  Ambrosetti Giudici, Sveva ^a   Gédet, Philippe ^b   Ferguson, Stephen J ^b   Chegini, Salman ^b   Burger, Juergen ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Relaxation rate; Spinal ligaments; Strain dependency; Stress relaxation; Viscoelastic model

Indexed keywords

RELAXATION RATE; RELAXATION RATES; STRAIN DEPENDENCIES; STRAIN DEPENDENCY; VISCOELASTIC MODELS;

BIOMECHANICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HISTOLOGY; MODELS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRAIN; STRESS RELAXATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

LIGAMENTS;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE STRESS; LIGAMENT; LUMBAR SPINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR SPINAL LIGAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; LIGAMENTS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 73649143923     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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