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 experimental characterization of suture material samples of MonoPlus, Monosyn, polyglycolic acid, polydioxanone 2–0, polydioxanone 4–0, poly(glycolide-co-epsilon-caprolactone), nylon, and polypropylene when subjected to cyclic loading and unloading conditions.
Date: May 20, 2013
Creator: Elías-Zúñiga, Alex; Montoya, Beatriz; Ortega, Wendy; Flores-Villalba, Eduardo; Rodríguez, Ciro A.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library