Journal
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 98-106Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.12.021
Keywords
Mechanical characterization; Living tissues; Nonlinear viscoelastic constitutive law; Shear
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We report linear and non-linear shear tests on rat skin, evidencing a strain-softening regime, from 1% to 50% strain, followed by a strong strain-hardening regime, leading to a 'deck chair-shaped' stress-strain curve. The strain-softening regime was never reported as such in the literature, possibly mistaken for the linear regime in experiments starting above 1% deformation. The time-dependent response is akin to that of a gel, with a power law frequency-dependent dynamic shear modulus ranging from similar to 5.6 kPa to similar to 10 kPa between 0.1 Hz and 10 Hz. We present an analytical non-linear viscoelastic model that accounts for both time-dependent and strain dependent features of the skin. This eight-parameter model extends the one we proposed for parenchymatous organs by including strain-softening.
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