Mechanical properties of excised human skin
Ni Annaidh, Aisling Ottenio, M. Bruyere, K. Destrade, Michel Gilchrist, Michael D.
Ni Annaidh, Aisling
Ottenio, M.
Bruyere, K.
Destrade, Michel
Gilchrist, Michael D.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/5722
https://doi.org/10.13025/15126
https://doi.org/10.13025/15126
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2010
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Annaidh, A. Ní, Ottenio, M., Bruyère, K., Destrade, M., & Gilchrist, M. D. (2010). Mechanical Properties of Excised Human Skin. In C. T. Lim & J. C. H. Goh (Eds.), 6th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB 2010). August 1-6, 2010 Singapore: In Conjunction with 14th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICBME) and 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (APBiomech) (pp. 1000-1003). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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In this study we have investigated in influence of location, gender and orientation on the deformation characteristics of 55 samples of human excised skin. Uniaxial tensile tests were carried out at a strain rate of 0.012s-1 on excised human skin from the back. The deformation characteristics of skin (Ultimate Tensile Strength (P<0.0001), Failure Strain (P=0.0177), Young s Modulus (P<0.0076), Initial Slope (P=0.0375) and Strain Energy (P=0.0101)) were found to be dependent upon the orientation of specimens with respect to the Langer s Lines. The location of specimens on the back was also found to have a significant effect on the Ultimate Tensile Strength (P =0.0002), the Young s Modulus (P=0.0017) and the Strain Energy (P=0.005).
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