Confined and unconfined stress relaxation of cartilage: appropriateness of a transversely isotropic analysis

被引:94
作者
Bursac, PM [1 ]
Obitz, TW [1 ]
Eisenberg, SR [1 ]
Stamenovic, D [1 ]
机构
[1] Boston Univ, Dept Biomed Engn, Boston, MA 02215 USA
关键词
axial stress; radial stress; elastic moduli; Poisson's ratio;
D O I
10.1016/S0021-9290(99)00105-0
中图分类号
Q6 [生物物理学];
学科分类号
071011 ;
摘要
Previous studies have shown that stress relaxation behavior of calf ulnar growth plate and chondroepiphysis cartilage can be described by a linear transverse isotropic biphasic model. The model provides a good fit. to the observed unconfined compression transients when the out-of-plane Poisson's ratio is set to zero. This assumption is based on the observation that the equilibrium stress in the axial direction (sigma(z)) is the same in confined and unconfined compression, which implies that the radial stress sigma(r) = 0 in confined compression. In our study, we further investigated the ability of the transversely isotropic model to describe confined and unconfined stress relaxation behavior of calf cartilage. A series of confined and unconfined stress relaxation tests were performed on calf articular cartilage (4.5 mm diameter, similar to 3.3 mm height) in a displacement-controlled compression apparatus capable of measuring sigma(z) and sigma(r). In equilibrium, sigma(r) > 0 and sigma(z) in confined compression was greater than in unconfined compression. Transient data at each strain were fitted by the linear transversely isotropic biphasic model and the material parameters were estimated. Although the model could provide good fits to the unconfined transients, the estimated parameters overpredicted the measured sigma(r). Conversely, if the model was constrained to match equilibrium sigma(r), the fits were poor. These findings suggest that the linear transversely isotropic biphasic model could not simultaneously describe the observed stress relaxation and equilibrium behavior of calf cartilage. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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