Varying degrees of nonlinear mechanical behavior arising from geometric differences of urogynecological meshes

ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1245-1246

  Feola, Andrew ^a   Pal, Siladitya ^a   Moalli, Pamela ^a,b   Maiti, Spandan ^a   Abramowitch, Steven ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 84882635190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/SBC2012-80227     Document Type: Conference Paper

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