A relation between hysteresis and other visco-elastic properties of some biomaterials¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Apter, Julia T. | Marquez, Elsa

Affiliations: Section of Mathematical Biology, Division of Surgery, Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Note: [1] Supported in part by USPHS Grant # R01-GM 14659-01 and 02 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and by USPHS grant # 2R01 CA 06475 from the National Cancer Institute.

Abstract: The behavior of linear visco-clastic materials may be approximated by differential equation of motion whose solution makes it possible to establish a relation between visco-elastic parameters obtained from stress relaxation studies and those obtained from oscillatory studies. Living tissues behave like linear visco-elastic materials under some conditions so that parameters may be determined from the two kinds of studies and compared with each other to establish the standard linear solid as a model. This study succeeds in showing the model to be suitable under a limited range of conditions for a variety of viable tissues tested in vitro.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1968-5405

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 285-301, 1968