Experimental Investigation of the Inelastic Response of Pig and Rat Skin under Uniaxial Cyclic Mechanical Loading

N. Afsar Kazerooni, A. R. Srinivasa, J. C. Criscione

Skin is a highly non-linear, anisotropic, rate dependent inelastic, and nearly incompressible material which exhibits substantial hysteresis even under very slow (quasistatic) load…