The mechanical properties of soft tissues play a key role in studying human injuries and their
mitigation strategies. While such properties are indispensable for computational modelling …

The expansion of conventional prosthetic skin grafts has been quantified to be very low and
insufficient for treating large and severe burn injuries with small amounts of available donor …

Collagen fibrils are essential for metazoan life. They are the largest, most abundant, and
most versatile protein polymers in animals, where they occur in the extracellular matrix to …

Slips and falls are among the most serious public safety hazards. Adequate friction at the
shoe–floor contact is necessary to reduce these risks. In the presence of slippery fluids such …

Skin tissues are anisotropic, and their mechanical characteristics vary widely depending on
where they are located on the body. While some research has been conducted in the past to …

Skin grafting is a surgical procedure to treat extensive burn injuries, and the design of skin
grafts plays an essential role in burn surgery. In skin grafting, parallel incisions are projected …

Millions of women around the globe have been affected by inadequately assessed
gynaecological surgeries and urogynaecology mesh implantations. The unavailability of …

Fabric rubber composites have attracted great interests among researchers because of their
high specific strength and specific modulus. Developing accurate constitutive models is still …

The ability to expand skin grafts is essential in treating severe burn injuries that require
donor skin for transplantation. While most graft mesh manufacturers claim high expansions …

In this study, the electromechanical properties of two different three-dimensional (3D) printed
continuous wire polymer composites (CWPC) were characterized and compared. The two …