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This paper studied experimentally and theoretically the biomechanical properties of skin with laser influence. Different types of tensile tests of the porcine skin in vitro were conducted to study effect of the laser, tensile strength, stress-strain relationship, influence of skin’s anisotropy and different regions, repetitive loading and stress-relaxation. A modeling of skin was developed according to the experimental results. The modeling provided insights into the important structure-function relationship in skin tissue with the laser effect. The nonlinear and anisotropic mechanical responses of skin are largely due to varying degree of fiber undulation which is effected by laser and outside forces. By introducing the laser factor into the constitutive modeling, the skin’s biomechanical properties and the mechanism of the skin repair with laser were discussed.
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Foundation item: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51178265)
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Huang, Z., Zhou, D. & Ren, Qs. Biomechanical properties and modeling of skin with laser influence. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 16, 610–613 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-011-1197-1
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