A note on the elasticity of soft biological tissues

Demiray, Hilmi<sup>1</sup>

Affiliations

¹McMaster University, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Abstract

In this short note a simple possible form of the strain energy function for soft biological tissues is studied. The similarity of the result of an example problem to experimental results is encouraging.

Links

DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(72)90047-4

PubMed: 4666535

WoS: A1972M343900010

History

Received: 1971-10-1

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