A multilayer braided scaffold for Anterior Cruciate Ligament: Mechanical modeling at the fiber scale

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 184-196

  Laurent, Cédric P ^a   Durville, Damien ^b   Mainard, Didier ^c   Ganghoffer, Jean François ^a   Rahouadj, Rachid ^a  

^a NANCY UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Grande Voie des Vignes   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

Anterior Cruciate Ligament; Braided scaffold; Finite Element modeling; Mechanical stimuli; Scaffold design; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BEST FIT; BIOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; CAPROLACTONE; COMPUTER-AIDED TISSUE ENGINEERING; CONSTITUTIVE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL LOADING; FINITE ELEMENT CODES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL MODELING; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; TENSILE RESPONSE; TENSILE TESTS;

BIOMECHANICS; DEFORMATION; FIBERS; LACTIC ACID; LOADING; MULTILAYERS; SCAFFOLDS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TENSILE TESTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

COPOLYMER; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRICTION; KNEE FUNCTION; LOADING TEST; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICS; CAPROATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KNEE; LACTONES; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYMERS; SOFTWARE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84864301275     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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