June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
17h 39m
English
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd
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Evaluating the mechanical properties of
biomaterials
M. CAPURRO and F. BARBERIS , University of Genoa, Italy
DOI : 10.1533/9780857098104.2.270
Abstract : The evaluation of the mechanical properties of biomaterials is
an important issue in many elds of physiology, medicine and surgery.
This chapter focuses on the elastic and viscoelastic properties of ‘soft’
tissues and their corresponding arti cial materials (i.e. polymers). After
a brief explanation of the constitutive laws, which are usually non-linear
elastic, viscoelastic and (in certain cases) poroelastic, the methods for
measuring such ...