A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION OF A METHOD FOR DEFINING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CELLS AND TISSUE.
Abstract
The purpose of the thesis was to investigate and select an optimum technical approach for obtaining the mechanical properties of aortic tissue. The following conclusions were made as a result of the preliminary investigation of the unit cell: (1) The passive cell state may be considered as a viscoelastic creep problem; (2) the Voigt model provides an experimental method of determining a value for an idealized retardation time, a normalized stress, and the cell's theoretical specific weight; (3) the parameters K, S, and gamma are influenced by the following factors: (a) The quantities appear to reflect a cellular response which is a function of the magnitude, duration, or both magnitude and duration of an applied disturbing force; (b) the accuracy of the particular values is influenced by the time difference in the sequential photographic data; (c) the cellular rate of deformation appears to be temperature sensitive. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0624647
Entities
People
- Ralph Waldo Weaver Jr.
Organizations
- University of New Hampshire