Background: There is no consistent data on the mechanical properties of sheep intestine. OBJECTIVES: We performed a series of biaxial strain measurement experiments and extracted the constitutive model to describe the mechanical characteristics of the sheep intestinal tissue. METHODS: Eleven specimens were obtained freshly from sacrificed  sheep and the planar biaxial tests were performed on th...

Calculating high stress concentration within carotid atherosclerotic plaques has been shown to be complementary to anatomical features in assessing vulnerability. Reliability of stress calculation may depend on the constitutive laws/strain energy density functions (SEDFs) used to characterize tissue material properties. Different SEDFs, including neo-Hookean, one-/two-term Ogden, Yeoh, 5-parame...

Small diameter tissue-engineered arteries improve their mechanical and functional properties when they are mechanically stimulated. Applying a suitable stress and/or strain with or without a cycle to the scaffolds and cells during the culturing process resides in our ability to generate a suitable mechanical model. Collagen gel is one of the most used scaffolds in vascular tissue engineering, m...

There is an increasing need to understand the mechanical properties of human orbital fat and its encapsulating connective tissue (OFCT), but such knowledge is not available in the current literature. The purpose of the present study is to examine the mechanical properties of the OFCT. From 5 pairs of 76- to 92-year-old Caucasian human eyes and 33 5- to 7-month-old porcine eyes, 5 human and 11 p...

Abstract Atherosclerosis is one of the most common cardiovascular diseases leading to high morbidity. The study arterial dynamics using fluid–structure interaction (FSI) technique by taking into account physiology flow, critical hemodynamic parameters can be determined which plays a crucial role in predictive medicine. Due advances computational facilities, coupled field analysis such as FSI fa...

This article presents the results of experimental tests carried out on a polyurethane hyperelastic adhesive. The Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden and Yeoh models were analyzed between others, with different order parameters using finite element method Ansys V17.1 package, aim evaluating convergence general model, to subsequently manufacture specimens perform uniaxial stress tests. information obtained from...

Abstract The crosslink density of rubber compounds has a great effect on the properties final product. For this reason, suitable characterization method is required to understand and optimize performance materials. Four different experimental techniques were used determine silica-filled styrene butadiene composites: equilibrium swelling experiments, stress–strain measurements using Mooney–Rivli...

The purpose of this study was to create a polymer phantom mimicking the mechanical properties of soft tissues using experimental tests and rheological models. Multifrequency Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MMRE) tests were performed on the present phantom with a pneumatic driver to characterize the viscoelastic (μ, η) properties using Voigt, Maxwell, Zener and Springpot models. To optimize the...

In this paper a semi cylindrical fluid filled hyperelastic finger model for soft contact has been developed from the basic principles of mechanics. The deformation parameters namely contact width and radial deflection were calculated for different applied forces. To validate this analytical model, compression tests were conducted on silicone rubber finger specimens . Contact width and radial de...