Determination of the axial and circumferential mechanical properties of the skin tissue using experimental testing and constitutive modeling

Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 1768-1774

  Karimi, Alireza ^a   Navidbakhsh, Mahdi ^a   Haghighatnama, Maedeh ^b   Haghi, Afsaneh Motevalli ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

anatomical locations; elastic modulus; loading directions; mechanical properties; Ogden; skin

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DECISION MAKING; ELASTIC MODULI; HISTOLOGY; MAMMALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SKIN;

ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS; HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL MODELS; LOADING DIRECTION; NONLINEAR MECHANICAL RESPONSE; OGDEN;

TISSUE;

ABDOMEN; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACK; COLLAGEN FIBER; ELASTICITY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; YOUNG MODULUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WEIGHT BEARING;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SKIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84923458120     PISSN: 10255842     EISSN: 14768259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2014.961441     Document Type: Article

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