Tissue mechanics
[Rod Lakes]


Tissue Biomechanics class
Ligament and tendon
* Tendon hierarchical structure diagram. * Ligament structure.
* Ligament structure. Scanning electron micrographs of a normal rat medial collateral ligament (A)
* Ligament structure. Normal (top) and scar (bottom) tissues of a healing medial collateral ligament (MCL) in slack configuration.
* Ligament structure. Bifurcation/Fusion of collagen fibrils in normal MCL tissue at 20,000X (arrow). Note the collagen fibril overlap and interweaving.
* Ligament structure. Ligament in which a single tensile overload produced microstructural damage but not ligament rupture (B).
* Ligament overload damage image
* Ligament overload damage graph
* Ligament stress-strain curves
* Constitutive equations. Linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity
* Superposition in viscoelasticity
* Prediction of nonlinear viscoelasticity
* Ligament relaxation.
* Ligament creep and relaxation.
* Ligament rate effect.

Bone
* Bone hierarchical structure.
* Dry bones.
* Bone Galen View
* Bone structure pdf.
* Bone histology 1 after U. Texas.
* Bone histology 2 after U. Michigan.
* Bone structure, function after American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
* Bone relaxation and damping plot.
* Bone axial damping summary plot .
* Bone shear damping summary plot .
* Bone torsion damping summary plot .
* Viscoelasticity due to fluid flow.
* Stiffness / loss plot: comparison of materials.
* Bone long creep
* Cement line displacement in bone under prolonged load.
* Slow waves
* Bovine bone
* Osteons, size effect. §.
* Misshapen head reshaped
* Baby helmet for head reshaping
* Baby heads improper treatment. 2, 3. * Contemplative skeleton.


Muscle
* Heart muscle relaxation.
* Heart muscle relaxation time related to size.
* Interpretation via Biot theory.
* Viscoelasticity due to fluid flow.

Other tissues
* Skin Poisson's ratio
* Diagnostic percussion waveforms
* Lens of the eye
* Spine viscoelasticity
* Spinal creep in living subject. Height change.
* Spine height change with time
* Leg impact damping
* Foot hysteresis
* Droop?


Wood
* Wood structure.
* Wood viscoelasticity 2, 3.

* isthmus view
* isthmus and campus