The mechanical properties of the skin are important for various applications. Numerous tests
have been conducted to characterize the mechanical behavior of this tissue, and this article …

Scientific studies have been conducted to quantify attributes that may be important in the
creation of more functional and comfortable lower-limb prostheses. The prosthesis socket, a …

The pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is featured with extracellular amyloid-β (Aβ)
plaques, whose impact on the mechanical properties of the surrounding brain tissues is …

Injury to the central nervous system (CNS) alters the molecular and cellular composition of
neural tissue and leads to glial scarring, which inhibits the regrowth of damaged axons …

At mechanical equilibrium, articular cartilage is usually characterized as an isotropic elastic
material with no interstitial fluid flow. In this study, the equilibrium properties (Young's …

The viability of chronic neural microelectrodes for electrophysiological recording and
stimulation depends on several factors, including the encapsulation of the implant by a …

Improved seating comfort is an important factor that most car manufacturers use to
distinguish their products from those of their competitors. In today's automotive engineering …

Many researchers have proposed imaging the stiffness distribution in breast tissue to
enhance diagnosis of disease. They suppose that cancers are much stiffer than the …

In recent years, rheological measurements of cells and tissues at physiological and
pathological stages have become an essential method to determine how forces and …

This paper reviews the existing literature on the tests used to determine the mechanical
properties of women breast tissues (fat, glandular and tumour tissue) as well as the different …