Dynamic stiffness and damping of porcine muscle specimens

Compressive properties of passive skeletal muscle—The impact of precise sample geometry on parameter identification in inverse finite element analysis

“…Isolated muscle tissue samples have been studied experimentally in compression (McElhaney, 1966;Aimedieu et al, 2003;Van Loocke et al, 2006van Sligtenhorst and Cronin, 2006;Song et al, 2007;Chawla et al, 2009), shear (van Turnhout et al, 2005, and tension experiments (Yoo et al, 2009;Calvo et al, 2010;Nie et al, 2011). If such experiments are interpreted by constitutive models, the parameter identification is usually based on a simplified analytical solution of the problem and only the stress response is taken into account.…”

Hyper-elastic properties of the human sternocleidomastoideus muscle in tension

“…Muscle is known to also have viscoelastic characteristics (Aimedieu et al, 2003;Bensamoun et al, 2006;Bosboom et al, 2001;Chawla et al, 2009;Myers et al, 1995Myers et al, , 1998Noonan et al, 1993Noonan et al, , 1994Van Loocke et al, 2006. Viscoelasticity is often modeled with rheological models such as Kelvin-Voigt's (Aimedieu et al, 2003), or Maxwell's model (Chawla et al, 2009) or Prony series (Van Loocke et al, 2008) and thus its effect on the load varies with strain rate and the maximum reached strain.…”

“…Viscoelasticity is often modeled with rheological models such as Kelvin-Voigt's (Aimedieu et al, 2003), or Maxwell's model (Chawla et al, 2009) or Prony series (Van Loocke et al, 2008) and thus its effect on the load varies with strain rate and the maximum reached strain.…”

“…The passive mechanical properties of muscles have been studied by conducting compression tests with samples of muscles (Aimedieu et al, 2003;Chawla et al, 2009;McElhaney, 1966;Song et al, 2007;Van Loocke et al, 2006Untaroiu et al, 2005). These experiments were performed mostly on samples of animal muscles.…”

“…Most of the in vitro experiments refer to structural mechanical properties (stiffness, energy to failure, maximum load) (Aimedieu et al, 2003;Anderson et al, 2002;Ettema and Huijing, 1994;Gottsauner-Wolf et al, 1995;Hawkins and Bey, 1997;Lin et al, 1999;Noonan et al, 1993Noonan et al, , 1994 or, at most, to stress-strain curves when partial information on the sample geometry is available, but with no analysis of the mechanical properties (Bensamoun et al, 2006;McElhaney, 1966;Song et al, 2007). The passive load-length curve is characterized in a first approach by an exponential shape (Davis et al, 2003;Gosselin et al, 1998;Moss and Halpern, 1977).…”