Skin mechanical properties and modeling: A review
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- 1 April 2018
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
- Vol. 232 (4), 323-343
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0954411918759801
Abstract
The mechanical properties of the skin are important for various applications. Numerous tests have been conducted to characterize the mechanical behavior of this tissue, and this article presents a review on different experimental methods used. A discussion on the general mechanical behavior of the skin, including nonlinearity, viscoelasticity, anisotropy, loading history dependency, failure properties, and aging effects, is presented. Finally, commonly used constitutive models for simulating the mechanical response of skin are discussed in the context of representing the empirically observed behavior.Keywords
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