Stress-Softening and Residual Strain Effects in Suture Materials (open access)

Stress-Softening and Residual Strain Effects in Suture Materials

This article focuses on the formulation of a constitutive equation to predict Mullins and residual strain effects of buna-N, silicone, and neoprene rubber strings subjected to small transverse vibrations.
Date: May 27, 2013
Creator: Elías-Zúñiga, Alex; Baylón, Karen; Martínez-Romero, Oscar; Rodríguez, Ciro A. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
System: The UNT Digital Library