Title :
Strain rate dependency of wound breaking strength for the dermal wound model
Author :
Talbot, Thomas L. ; Cromack, Douglas T. ; Norton, Jeffrey A. ; Tipton, Harold W.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract :
Male Fischer rats were given a full thickness, dorsal midline wound with a scalpel, and the wound was closed with 9-mm clips at 1-cm intervals. At postoperative day 14 the rats were sacrificed and wound-breaking strengths (WBS) for various strain rates were determined. The results demonstrated a dramatic dependence of WBS on strain rate.<>
Keywords :
biomechanics; skin; dermal wound model; dorsal midline wound; male Fischer rats; strain rate dependency; wound breaking strength;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1988. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Orleans, LA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0785-2
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1988.94928
