Previous results demonstrated convincingly that unloading can alter mechanic behavior of the muscle tendon, and that tendon extension results in decrease of tendon stiffness (Mayer et al. 1981; Mora et al. 2003; Kubo et al. 2000, 2004; De Boer et al. 2007).
A Kelvin-Voigt viscoelastic shear lag model is proposed to illustrate the micromechanical behavior of the tendon under dynamic tensile conditions.
We investigated the adhesion behavior of rabbit tendon fibroblast onto alginate polymer fibers versus the adhesion of the fibroblast onto alginate-based chitosan hybrid polymer fibers.
For instance, the behavior of explanted tendon cells is not identical to the behavior of tendon cells in their natural matrix environment in vivo [ 38, 39].
The mechanical behavior of the tendon depends on its cross-sectional area and length.
However, the degradation law of fatigue behavior of BFRP tendons under a marine environment is still unclear.
This paper studies the fatigue behavior of BFRP tendons after aging in a salt solution by temperature-accelerated experiments.
This model was dubbed quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV), and it has since been applied to describe the viscoelastic behavior of a wide range of biological materials, such as tendons, ligaments, veins, arteries, cartilage, cardiac and skeletal muscle (e.g., [11] [31]).
The role that extracellular matrix components, mainly collagen, proteoglycans, and collagen cross-links, play in determining the mechanical behavior of tendon will be examined in this review.
No fracture of steel also has occurred, demonstrating the satisfactory fatigue behavior of the tested tendon assemblies.
