Anisotropic and age-dependent elastic material behavior of the human costal cartilage

The proteinpolysaccharides of human costal cartilage.

Water-soluble proteinpolysaccharides, called PPL, can be extracted from bovine nucleus pulposus in yields of 45%, and from bovine nasal cartilage in yields of 37% of the dry tissue weight. From human costal cartilage only 7% can be extracted. The method used to separate PPL from each of the first two tissues into four distinct fractions separates the PPL of human costal cartilage into four frac...

A Elastic and Hyperelastic Material Model of Joint Cartilage - Calculation of the Pressure Dependent Material Stress in Joint Cartilage

In this paper we introduce a elastic and hyperelastic model to describe the pressure dependent material stress in joint cartilage. We used the pressure dependent E-modulus E = f(s) to calculate the material stress. E = f(s) is a degree 4 polynomial [1]. The indentor was pressed 0.4 mm into the tissue. The results show that the maximal stress at the contact zone between indentor and cartilage ac...

Proteinpolysaccharides from human articular and costal cartilage.

Modelling of Rate-dependent Anisotropic Material Behavior by Plasticity Theory

Const i tut ive equations appropriate t o the rate-dependent p l a s t i c deformation of an i so t rop ic mater ials a re developed. The method used i n the der iva t ion cons i s t s of the inclusion of the appropriate r a t e of deformation var iab le i n the func t iona l d e f i n i t i o n of the y ie ld surface and the requirement t h a t the s t a t e p i n t remain on t h i s y ie ld s...

A pseudo-elastic effective material property representation of the costal cartilage for use in finite element models of the whole human body.

OBJECTIVE Injury-predictive finite element (FE) models of the chest must reproduce the structural coupling behavior of the costal cartilage accurately. Gross heterogeneities (the perichondrium and calcifications) may cause models developed based on local material properties to erroneously predict the structural behavior of cartilage segments. This study sought to determine the pseudo-elastic ef...