Layer-Specific Damage Modeling of Porcine Large Intestine under Biaxial Tension

Autor: Aroj Bhattarai, Charlotte Anabell May, Manfred Staat, Wojciech Kowalczyk, Thanh Ngoc Tran
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Bioengineering, Vol 9, Iss 10, p 528 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2306-5354
DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering9100528
Popis: The mechanical behavior of the large intestine beyond the ultimate stress has never been investigated. Stretching beyond the ultimate stress may drastically impair the tissue microstructure, which consequently weakens its healthy state functions of absorption, temporary storage, and transportation for defecation. Due to closely similar microstructure and function with humans, biaxial tensile experiments on the porcine large intestine have been performed in this study. In this paper, we report hyperelastic characterization of the large intestine based on experiments in 102 specimens. We also report the theoretical analysis of the experimental results, including an exponential damage evolution function. The fracture energies and the threshold stresses are set as damage material parameters for the longitudinal muscular, the circumferential muscular and the submucosal collagenous layers. A biaxial tensile simulation of a linear brick element has been performed to validate the applicability of the estimated material parameters. The model successfully simulates the biomechanical response of the large intestine under physiological and non-physiological loads.
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