Viscoelastic Models for Ligaments and Tendons

Collagenous tissues such as ligaments and tendons are viscoelastic materials. They exhibit a slow continuous increase in strain over time, or creep, when subjected to a constant stress and a slow continuous decrease in stress over time, or stress relaxation, when subjected to a constant strain. More...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sopakayang, Ratchada
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77298
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12212010-141222/