Cwj Cees Oomens

TL;DR: A new, hierarchical research approach is proposed to obtain improved insights into the basic pathways whereby mechanical loading leads to soft tissue breakdown and provide new fundamental knowledge about the etiology of pressure ulcers that can serve as a sound basis for effective clinical identification and prevention.

TL;DR: A numerical‐experimental method was developed to characterize the non‐linear mechanical behaviour of human dermis, and the mechanical properties of the different layers are studied.

TL;DR: The in vivo mechanical behavior of the upper skin layer (here defined as epidermis and papillar dermis) was characterized using a combined experimental and modeling approach, leading to an unexpected, extreme stiffness ratio of the material parameters let to convergence problems of the finite element software for most of the individuals.

TL;DR: The objective of this study was to measure and describe the linear viscoelastic behavior of subcutaneous adipose tissue, and a power-law function model was introduced to describe both the frequency dependent behavior at constant temperature and the stress relaxation behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, a mixed numerical-experimental method was used to determine the parameters in elasto-plastic constitutive models, and the models were evaluated by examining the estimated parameters and the residual displacements.