Adaptively Reconstructing Network of Soft Elastomers to Increase Strand Rigidity: towards Free-Standing Electro-Actuation Strain over 100%

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheqi Chen ◽  
Zipeng Ma ◽  
Jiali Tang ◽  
Youhua Xiao ◽  
Jie Mao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strain Hardening ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues ◽  
Flexible Networks ◽  
Actuation Strain

Soft biological tissues and muscles composed of the semiflexible networks exhibit rapid strain-hardening behaviors to protect them from accidental rupture. In contrast, synthetic soft elastomers, usually featured with flexible networks,...

Propagation of surface acoustic waves in the models of soft biological tissues

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 814
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Shorokhov ◽  
Vadim N. Voronkov ◽  
Alexander N. Klishko
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Surface Acoustic Waves ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues

Spherical indentation load-relaxation of soft biological tissues

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 2003-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Mattice ◽  
Anthony G. Lau ◽  
Michelle L. Oyen ◽  
Richard W. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Costal Cartilage ◽  
Kidney Tissue ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Indentation Load ◽  
Spherical Indentation ◽  
Load Relaxation ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Constant Displacement ◽  
Soft Biological Materials

Elastic-viscoelastic correspondence was used to generate displacement–time solutions for spherical indentation testing of soft biological materials with time-dependent mechanical behavior. Boltzmann hereditary integral operators were used to determine solutions for indentation load-relaxation following a constant displacement rate ramp. A “ramp correction factor” approach was used for routine analysis of experimental load-relaxation data. Experimental load-relaxation tests were performed on rubber, as well as kidney tissue and costal cartilage, two hydrated soft biological tissues with vastly different mechanical responses. The experimental data were fit to the spherical indentation ramp-relaxation solutions to obtain values of short- and long-time shear modulus and of material time constants. The method is used to demonstrate linearly viscoelastic responses in rubber, level-independent indentation results for costal cartilage, and age-independent indentation results for kidney parenchymal tissue.

scholarly journals Численное моделирование миграции фотонов в однородных и неоднородных цилиндрических фантомах

2020 ◽  
Vol 128 (6) ◽  
pp. 832
Author(s):  
А.Ю. Потлов ◽  
С.В. Фролов ◽  
С.Г. Проскурин
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Transfer ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Photon Density ◽  
Radiation Transfer Equation ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues ◽  
Photon Diffusion ◽  
Low Coherence ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Pulsed Irradiation

The specific features of photon diffusion of low-coherence pulsed irradiation in phantoms of soft biological tissues (blood-saturated tissues of the brain, breast, etc.) are described. The results of photon migration simulation using the Diffusion Approximation to the Radiation Transfer Equation (RTE) are compared with ones of the Monte Carlo simulations. It has been confirmed that the Photon Density Normalized Maximum (PDNM) moves towards the center of the investigated object in case of relatively uniform and strongly scattering media. In the presence of inhomogeneities, type of the PDNM motion changes drastically. Presence of an absorbing inhomogeneity in the medium directs trajectory of the PDNM motion of towards the point symmetric to the inhomogeneity relative to the geometric center of the investigated object. In case of scattering the PDNM moves toward the direction of the center of the scattering inhomogeneity.

Reflection-mode continuous-wave 0.15λ-resolution terahertz solid immersion microscopy of soft biological tissues

2018 ◽  
Vol 113 (11) ◽  
pp. 111102 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. V. Chernomyrdin ◽  
A. S. Kucheryavenko ◽  
G. S. Kolontaeva ◽  
G. M. Katyba ◽  
I. N. Dolganova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Wave ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Reflection Mode ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues

Equivalent Mixed “PHETS” and “MPHETS” Poroelasttc-Transport-Swelling Finite Element Models for Soft Biological Tissues

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. R. Simon ◽  
S. K. Williams ◽  
J. Liu ◽  
J. W. Nichol ◽  
P. H. Rigby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Finite Element ◽  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Biological Tissues ◽  
Finite Element Models ◽  
Material Interfaces ◽  
Soft Biological Tissues ◽  
Fibrous Matrix ◽  
Charged Species ◽  
Pressure Fields ◽  
Swelling Model

Abstract A soft hydrated tissue structure can be viewed as a “PETS” (poroelastic-transport-swelling) model, i.e., as a continuum composed of an incompressible porous solid (fibrous matrix with fixed charge density, FCD) that is saturated by a mobile incompressible fluid (water) containing mobile positively (p) and negatively (m) charged species. Previously, we described two PETS models — a “semi-mixed” porohyperelastic PHETS model (Simon et al. 1998) and a “fully mixed” MPHETS model (Simon et al. 1999) using FEMs (finite element models) that included geometric and material nonlinearity and coupled electrical/chemical/mechanical transport of the fluid and charged species. Here, we demonstrate the equivalence of the PHETS and MPHETS formulations that are useful when the solid and fluid materials are incompressible and the electrical-chemical potential and mechanical-osmotic pressure fields are discontinuous at material interfaces.

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