Biological systems are subjected to moderate-to-high strain rates in blast-type traumatic injuries. An improved understanding of the responses of cells and tissues to extreme mechanical stresses could improve mitigation and post-injury treatment strategies. A key aim of this research is to create biologically meaningful injury models of soft tissues. Here the authors examine the material and cellular properties of freshly harvested porcine skin in compression. The data presented suggest that fresh skin differentially responds low to moderate strain rates as a composite rather than that of a homogeneous polymer. The implications of this work are discussed in terms of creating improved analytical models to describe the material properties of fresh skin.
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June 2015
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June 01 2015
Composite nature of fresh skin revealed during compression
Benjamin J. Butler, MSc;
Benjamin J. Butler, MSc
Graduate Student, The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK
Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Rachael L. Boddy, MSci;
Rachael L. Boddy, MSci
Graduate Student, Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Chiara Bo, PhD;
Chiara Bo, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK
Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Hari Arora, PhD;
Hari Arora, PhD
Research Fellow, The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK
Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Alun Williams, PhD;
Alun Williams, PhD
Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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William G. Proud, PhD;
William G. Proud, PhD
Reader, The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK
Institute of Shock Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Katherine A. Brown, PhD
Katherine A. Brown, PhD
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Senior Research Fellow, The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London, London, UK
Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
*Corresponding author e-mail address: kb518@cam.ac.uk
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*Corresponding author e-mail address: kb518@cam.ac.uk
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Received:
August 01 2014
Accepted:
November 17 2014
Online ISSN: 2045-9866
Print ISSN: 2045-9858
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2015
Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials (2015) 4 (2): 133–139.
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Received:
August 01 2014
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November 17 2014
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Butler BJ, Boddy RL, Bo C, Arora H, Williams A, Proud WG, Brown KA (2015), "Composite nature of fresh skin revealed during compression". Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, Vol. 4 No. 2 pp. 133–139, doi: https://doi.org/10.1680/bbn.14.00028
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