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The evaluation of new multi-material human soft tissue simulants for sports impact surrogates

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posted on 2015-01-13, 14:14 authored by Tom Payne, Sean MitchellSean Mitchell, Richard Bibb, Mark Waters
Previous sports impact reconstructions have highlighted the inadequacies in current measures to evaluate the effectiveness of personal protective equipment (PPE) and emphasised the need for improved impact surrogates that provide a more biofidelic representation of human impact response.The skin, muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissues were considered to constitute the structures primarily governing the mechanical behaviour of the human body segment. A preceding study by Payne et al. (in press) investigated the formulation and characterisation of muscle tissue simulants. The present study investigates the development of bespoke blends of additive cure polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) silicones to represent both skin and adipose tissues using the same processes previously reported. These simulants were characterised mechanically through a range of strain rates and a range of hyperelastic and viscoelastic constitutive models were evaluated to describe their behaviour.To explore the worth of the silicone simulants, finite element (FE) models were developed using anthropometric parameters representative of the human thigh segment, derived from the Visible Human Project. The multi-material silicone construction was validated experimentally and compared with both organic tissue data from literature and commonly used single material simulants: Dow Corning Silastic 3480 series silicones and ballistics gelatin when subject to a representative sports specific knee impact. Superior biofidelic performance is reported for the PDMS silicone formulations and surrogate predictions.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volume

41

Pages

336 - 356

Citation

PAYNE, T. ... et al, 2015. The evaluation of new multi-material human soft tissue simulants for sports impact surrogates. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 41, pp.336-356.

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© Elsevier Ltd

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2014-09-19

Publication date

2014-09-30

Copyright date

2015

Notes

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.09.018

ISSN

1751-6161

eISSN

1878-0180

Other identifier

S1751616114003026

Language

  • en

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