title: The time and history-dependent viscoelastic properties of the canine medical collateral ligament.
abstract: The viscoelastic properties of the canine medial collateral ligament (MCL) were investigated. Stress-strain relationships at different strain rates, long-term stress relaxation and cyclic stress-strain curves of the MCL were obtained experimentally using a bone-MCL-bone preparation. The experimental data were used in conjunction with the quasi-linear viscoelastic theory as proposed by Fung [15] to characterize the reduced relaxation function, G(t) and elastic response sigma e (epsilon) of this tissue. It was found that the quasi-linear viscoelastic theory can adequately describe the time and history-dependent rheological properties of the canine medial collateral ligament.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D004285:Dogs; D004548:Elasticity; D008023:Ligaments, Articular / Q000502:physiology*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013718:Tensile Strength; D013997:Time Factors