Rui Miranda Guedes

TL;DR: This review mainly intends to provide an overview of antimicrobial agents and treatments that can be performed to produce antimicrobial textiles, using chemical or physical approaches, which are under development or already commercially available in the form of isolated agents or textile fibers or fabrics.

TL;DR: In this article, the evolution of mechanical properties during degradation is discussed based on experimental data, and constitutive models that describe the mechanical behavior during degradation are proposed and experimentally validated, which can be adapted and used in other biodegradable materials, and can be considered fundamental tools in the design of regenerative medical devices.

TL;DR: This bibliographic review is focused on ligament tissue rehabilitation, its anatomy-physiology, and on the dimensioning considerations of a composite material solution, in order to allow early postoperative active mobilization and avoid the shortcomings of current repair solutions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of viscoelasticity on fatigue and deformation of polymer matrix composites is investigated. And the authors propose an accelerated testing methodology for predicting long-term deformation and fatigue in polymer matrix composite structures.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical procedure to predict long-term laminate properties of fiber reinforced composite materials was developed, which extended the classical laminate theory to include time related response of composite materials for membrane and flexural loading.