Deformations, mechanical strains and stresses across the different hierarchical scales in weight-bearing soft tissues

Journal of Tissue Viability

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 39-46

  Shoham, Naama ^a   Gefen, Amit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Deep tissue injury; Finite element method; Multiscale modeling; Pressure ulcer

Indexed keywords

CELL ORGANELLE; DECUBITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE INJURY; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 84861092829     PISSN: 0965206X     EISSN: 18764746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtv.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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