TY - JOUR
T1 - On the specimen length dependency of tensile mechanical properties in soft tissues
T2 - gripping effects and the characteristic decay length
AU - Anssari-Benam, Afshin
AU - Legerlotz , Kirsten
AU - Bader , Dan L.
AU - Screen, Hazel R. C.
N1 - NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in 'Journal of biomechanics'. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in 'Journal of biomechanics', VOL. 45, ISSUE 14, (2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.07.016
PY - 2012/9/21
Y1 - 2012/9/21
N2 - Uniaxial tensile tests to failure have regularly been employed to characterise the material properties of various biological tissues, ranging from heart valves (Anssari-Benam et al., 2011) and arteries (Teng et al., 2009; Lillie et al., 2010) to tendons (Legerlotz et al., 2010), intervertebral discs (Nerurkar et al., 2010) and liver (Brunon et al., 2010), providing valuable quantitative data on important mechanical properties such as ultimate stress, strain and modulus. These properties, by definition, are intrinsic material properties and thus should not depend on the geometry of the specimen
AB - Uniaxial tensile tests to failure have regularly been employed to characterise the material properties of various biological tissues, ranging from heart valves (Anssari-Benam et al., 2011) and arteries (Teng et al., 2009; Lillie et al., 2010) to tendons (Legerlotz et al., 2010), intervertebral discs (Nerurkar et al., 2010) and liver (Brunon et al., 2010), providing valuable quantitative data on important mechanical properties such as ultimate stress, strain and modulus. These properties, by definition, are intrinsic material properties and thus should not depend on the geometry of the specimen
M3 - Letter
SN - 0021-9290
VL - 45
SP - 2481
EP - 2482
JO - Journal of Biomechanics
JF - Journal of Biomechanics
IS - 14
ER -