Interfibrillar shear stress is the loading mechanism of collagen fibrils in tendon

Acta Biomaterialia

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2582-2590

  Szczesny, Spencer E ^a   Elliott, Dawn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibril sliding; Interfibrillar shear stress; Multiscale testing; Shear lag model; Tendon

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTICITY; LOAD TESTING; LOADS (FORCES); STRESS ANALYSIS; TENDONS;

COLLAGEN FIBRILS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FIBRIL SLIDING; INTERFIBRILLAR SHEAR STRESS; MACROSCALES; MECHANICAL FUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURAL MECHANISMS; MULTISCALE TESTING; SHEAR FORCE; SHEAR-LAG MODEL;

SHEAR STRESS;

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEAR STRESS; TENDON; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TENDONS;

EID: 84899628153     PISSN: 17427061     EISSN: 18787568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.01.032     Document Type: Article

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