As a carrier of deformation information, the speckle pattern, or more exactly the random
intensity distributions, which could be naturally occurred or artificially fabricated onto test …

This paper offers an overview of the potentialities and limitations of digital image correlation
(DIC) as a technique for measuring displacements and strain in biomechanical applications …

Although hundreds of samples obtained from ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA)
of patients undergoing elective surgical repair have already been characterized …

Abdominal organs are the most vulnerable body parts during vehicle trauma, leading to high
mortality rate due to acute injuries of liver, kidney, spleen and other abdominal organs …

The present study aims at investigating biomechanical failure behaviour of human
aneurismal aortic tissues so as to diagnose the rupture risk of aneurysms more accurately …

Objective Digital image correlation (DIC) is a non-contact image processing technique for
full-field strain measurement. Although DIC has been widely used in engineering and …

Understanding and modeling the liver biomechanics represent a significant challenge
because of the organ's complex nature. While many studies have been performed to fit …

The response of human amnion (HA) and bovine Glisson's capsule (GC) to uniaxial and
biaxial tensile loading is analyzed on tissue (∼ mm) and collagen fiber (∼ μm) length …

Motor vehicle crashes (MVC׳ s) commonly results in life threating thoracic and abdominal
injuries. Finite element models are becoming an important tool in analyzing automotive …

Thanks to advances of techniques like digital image correlation (DIC), the virtual fields
method (VFM) has become a common approach to identifying mechanical parameters of …