Biomechanical aspects on rehydrated freeze-dried human allograft dura mater tissues

Lloyd Wolfinbarger, Yongxing Zhang, Bao Ling T. Adam, Diana Homsi, Kevin Gates, Vicki Sutherland

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Abstract

Biomechanical properties of rehydrated freeze-dried human dura mater tissues were studied. Scanning electron and polarized light analysis indicated a multilayered distribution of collagen fibers in the dura mater tissue. Uniaxial tensile testing of 95 test strips permitted determination of average values for failure stress (6.65±0.14 MPa), failure strain (0.15±0.003), tangent modulus (69.50±1.29 MPa), elongation (0.56±0.01), and tangent stiffness (12.53±0.24 kN/m) of the dura mater tissue.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)265-270
Number of pages6
JournalJournal of applied biomaterials
Volume5
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1994
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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