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most citedCharacterising the Anisotropic Mechanical Properties of Excised Human Skin

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cond-mat.soft2020★ 104 cited

Extreme softness of brain matter in simple shear

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, Jerry G. Murphy +2

We show that porcine brain matter can be modelled accurately as a very soft rubber-like material using the Mooney-Rivlin strain energy function, up to strains as high as 60\%. This…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 38 cited

Deficiencies in numerical models of anisotropic nonlinearly elastic materials

Aisling Ni Annaidh, Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist +1

Incompressible nonlinearly hyperelastic materials are rarely simulated in Finite Element numerical experiments as being perfectly incompressible because of the numerical difficulti…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 199 cited

Mechanical characterization of brain tissue in simple shear at dynamic strain rates

Badar Rashid, Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist

During severe impact conditions, brain tissue experiences a rapid and complex deformation, which can be seen as a mixture of compression, tension and shear. Moreover, diffuse axona…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 227 cited

Mechanical characterization of brain tissue in tension at dynamic strain rates

Badar Rashid, Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist

Mechanical characterization of brain tissue at high loading velocities is crucial for modeling Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). During severe impact conditions, brain tissue experienc…

cond-mat.soft2020★ 52 cited

A combined experimental and numerical study of stab-penetration forces

Aisling Ni Annaidh, Marie Cassidy, Michael Curtis +2

The magnitude of force used in a stabbing incident can be difficult to quantify, although the estimate given by forensic pathologists is often seen as `critical' evidence in medico…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 59 cited

Influence of Preservation Temperature on the Measured Mechanical Properties of Brain Tissue

Badar Rashid, Michel Destrade, Michael Gilchrist

The large variability in experimentally measured mechanical properties of brain tissue is due to many factors including heterogeneity, anisotropy, age dependence and post-mortem ti…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 36 cited

Slight compressibility and sensitivity to changes in Poisson's ratio

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, Julie Motherway +1

Finite Element simulations of rubbers and biological soft tissue usually assume that the material being deformed is slightly compressible. It is shown here that in shearing deforma…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 51 cited

Third- and fourth-order constants of incompressible soft solids and the acousto-elastic effect

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, G. Saccomandi

Acousto-elasticity is concerned with the propagation of small-amplitude waves in deformed solids. Results previously established for the incremental elastodynamics of exact non-lin…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 56 cited

Onset of Non-Linearity in the Elastic Bending of Blocks

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, Jerry G. Murphy

The classical flexure problem of non-linear incompressible elasticity is revisited assuming that the bending angle suffered by the block is specified instead of the usual applied m…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 51 cited

Third- and fourth-order elasticity of biological soft tissues

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, Raymond W. Ogden

In the theory of weakly non-linear elasticity, Hamilton et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. \textbf{116} (2004) 41] identified as the fourth-order expansion…

cond-mat.soft2013★ 53 cited

Bimodular rubber buckles early in bending

Michel Destrade, Michael D. Gilchrist, Julie A. Motherway +1

A block of rubber eventually buckles under severe flexure, and several axial wrinkles appear on the inner curved face of the bent block. Experimental measurements reveal that the b…