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JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
Volume 48, Issue 16, Pages 4297-4302Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.10.042
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Medial patello-femoral ligament (MPFL); Ligament biomechanics; Ligament mechanical properties; Quasi-linear viscoelastic theory; QLV theory; Tissue Engineering
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The evaluation of viscoelastic properties of human medial patello-femoral ligament is fundamental to understand its physiological function and contribution as stabilizer for the selection of the methods of repair and reconstruction and for the development of scaffolds with adequate mechanical properties. In this work, 12 human specimens were tested to evaluate the time- and history-dependent non linear viscoelastic properties of human medial patello-femoral ligament using the quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) theory formulated by Fung et al. (1972) and modified by Abramowitch and Woo (2004). The five constant of the QLV theory, used to describe the instantaneous elastic response and the reduced relaxation function on stress relaxation experiments, were successfully evaluated. It was found that the constant A was 1.21 +/- 0.96 MPa and the dimensionless constant B was 26.03 +/- 4.16. The magnitude of viscous response, the constant C, was 0.11 +/- 0.02 and the initial and late relaxation time constants tau(1) and tau(2) were 632 +/- 1.76 s and 903.47 +/- 504.73 s respectively. The total stress relaxation was 32.7 +/- 4.7%. To validate our results, the obtained constants were used to evaluate peak stresses from a cyclic stress relaxation test on three different specimens. The theoretically predicted values fit the experimental ones demonstrating that the QLV theory could be used to evaluate the viscoelastic properties of the human medial patello-femoral ligament. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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