... to study the mechanical properties and model the response of these ligaments. The aim of this study is to characterize the aging effects on the failure properties and model the damage of three cervical spine ligaments: the anterior and the posterior longitudinal ligament and the ligamentum flavum. A total...

... is adopted as the basis for the development of constitutive models for the PDL and properly arranged for investigating the viscous and damage phenomena as well to interpret significant aspects pertaining to ordinary and degenerative conditions. Visco-hyperelastic models are used to analyze the time-dependent...

... 16 October 2000 bone biomechanics stress-strain relations Cancellous Bone Anatomic Site Damage Modulus Viscoelasticity The nonlinear elastic behavior of many polymer matrix composites is well documented 1 . While Young’s modulus is still routinely defined...