Material properties of the posterior human sclera

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 602-617

  Grytz, Rafael ^a   Fazio, Massimo A ^a   Girard, Michaël J A ^b   Libertiaux, Vincent ^a   Bruno, Luigi ^c   Gardiner, Stuart ^d   Girkin, Christopher A ^a   Crawford Downs, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen fibril strain; Homeostasis; Inverse analysis; Sclera

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRILS; CONSTITUTIVE FORMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL DEFORMATION; HOMEOSTASIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; LASER SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY; MECHANICAL HOMEOSTASIS; SCLERA;

ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SPECKLE; STRAIN;

COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST; DONOR; FEMALE; FIBER; GEOMETRY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RIGIDITY; SCLERA; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL STRAIN; HOMEOSTASIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SCLERA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888138631     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.03.027     Document Type: Article

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