Franz Maier

TL;DR: The significance of the differences between model parameters fitted to diseased thoracic versus abdominal tissues, and healthy versus diseased tissues, is determined and the anisotropic pseudo-elastic damage model fits the data well for both primary loading and discontinuous softening which is interpreted as damage.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-linear 2D material model was implemented in ABAQUS and validated with extensive experimental test data from compression and tensile tests, which was recorded by a stereo camera system for digital image correlation to resolve damage initiation and propagation in detail.

TL;DR: The minimum mechanical impact to cause microstructural damage in the network of collagen (microcracking) within human cartilage and hypothesized that energies below 0.1 J or 1 mJ/mm3 would suffice, found that impact energy/energy dissipation density and nominal stress/stress rate were significant predictors of microcracking.

TL;DR: The results reveal a progressive increase in tissue compliance and prestress from colonic to rectal segments, which supports prior electrophysiological findings of distinct mechanical neural encodings by afferents in the lumbar splanchnic nerves and pelvic nerves that dominate colonic and rectal innervations.

TL;DR: The results reveal the inner composite is slightly stiffer in the axial direction while the outer composite is stiffer circumferentially, which implies nociceptive roles for the colorectal afferent endings in the submucosa that likely encode tissue-injurious mechanical distension.