Abstract
The rupture of blood vessels in the human brain results in serious pathological and medical problems. In particular, brain hemorrhage and hematomas resulting from impact to the head are a major cause of death. As such, investigating the tensile behavior and rupture of blood vessels in the brain is very important from a medical point of view. In the present study, the tensile characteristics of the blood vessels in the human brain were analyzed using a quasi-static uniaxial tensile test, and the properties of the arteries and veins compared. In addition, to compare the tensile behavior and demonstrate the validity of the experimental results, blood vessels from the legs of pigs were also tested and analyzed. The overall results were in accordance with the histological structures and previous medical reports.
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Abbreviations
- E:
-
Young’s Modulus
- A, B, a, b:
-
Constants by Mechanical Properties
- C1, C2 :
-
Integral Constants
- σ :
-
Uniaxial stress
- ɛ:
-
Uniaxial strain
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Suh, CM., Kim, SH., Monson, K.L. et al. Tensile characteristics and behavior of blood vessels from human brain in uniaxial tensile test. KSME International Journal 17, 1016–1025 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02982986
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