Compressive viscoelasticity of freshly excised mouse skin is dependent on specimen thickness, strain level and rate.

Although the skin's mechanical properties are well characterized in tension, little work has been done in compression. Here, the viscoelastic properties of a population of mouse skin specimens (139 samples from 36 mice, aged 5 to 34 weeks) were characterized upon varying specimen thickness, as...

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Main Authors: Yuxiang Wang, Kara L Marshall, Yoshichika Baba, Ellen A Lumpkin, Gregory J Gerling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120897