A constitutive law for the failure behavior of medial collateral ligaments

Raffaella De Vita1, William S Slaughter

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 305 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. devita@vt.edu

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