A structural constitutive model for chemically treated planar tissues under biaxial loading

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• 作者：Michael S. Sacks
• 刊名：Computational Mechanics
• 出版年：2000
• 出版时间：September 2000
• 年：2000
• 卷：26
• 期：3
• 页码：243-249
• 全文大小：157 KB
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering
  Computational Science and Engineering
  Mechanics, Fluids and Thermodynamics
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0924

文摘

Chemically treated, biologically derived soft collagenous tissues are used extensively in medical devices. To enable prosthesis design through computational methods, physically realistic constitutive models are required. In the present study, a structural approach was utilized that incorporated experimentally measured angular distribution of collagen fibers. Using biaxial mechanical data from our previous study (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 26(5), pp. 892–902, 1998), the effective fiber and matrix stress–strain responses were predicted. The agreement with the experimental data supported the assumption that the mechanical effects of chemical treatment are equivalent to the addition of an isotropic elastic matrix. An important utility of this model is its ability to separate the effects of chemical treatment on the fibers and matrix. Applications of this approach include utilization in the design of novel chemical treatments that produce specific mechanical responses, the study of fatigue damage, and finite element implementation for tissue engineering scaffold design.