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Quantification of Strain in a Porcine Model of Skin Expansion Using Multi-View Stereo and Isogeometric Kinematics
Published on: April 16, 2017
Thermoelastic modelling of the skin at finite deformations
A McBride1, S Bargmann2, D Pond3
1School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Abstract:
The modelling and computation of the coupled thermal and mechanical response of human skin at finite deformations is considered. The model extends current thermal models to account for thermally- and mechanically-induced deformations. Details of the solution of the highly nonlinear system of governing equations using the finite element method are presented. A representative numerical example illustrates the importance of considering the coupled response for the problem of a rigid, hot indenter in contact with the skin.
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