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A mixture approach to the mechanics of skin
C W Oomens1, D H van Campen, H J Grootenboer
1Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Journal of Biomechanics
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
Skin can be considered to be a mixture of a solid and a fluid. A general theory for the description of the behaviour of mixtures is presented and applied to a mixture of a solid and a fluid. A numerical procedure is presented to solve the non-linear field equations describing such a mixture. The abilities of the procedure are demonstrated by means of a confined compression test.