Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7206830 | Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials | 2018 | 33 Pages |
Abstract
The passive biomechanical properties of the genioglossus muscle of a bovine tongue have been measured under uniaxial tensile tests. To characterize the 3-D response of the tissue, tests have been performed in different directions with respect to the MF direction. Moreover, a Constitutive Law (CL) has been proposed for modeling this behavior. In addition to our measurements on the bovine genioglossus muscle, results published in the literature on experimental data from the longissimus dorsi of pigs and the chicken pectoralis muscle were used to appraise the applicability of the proposed model. It is demonstrated that the proposed passive muscle model provides an accurate description of the fiber-oriented nature of muscle tissue. Also, it has been shown that using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) it might be possible to predict the angle θ between CFs and MF.
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Authors
Ali-Akbar Karkhaneh Yousefi, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Pascal Perrier, Masoud Shariat Panahi, Yohan Payan,