title: Stress stabilisation behaviours in skin under small tensile loads in vitro.
abstract: The response of human skin to "stress relaxation" tests at low loads in vitro was investigated. A number of behaviours, other than those already well established and documented, were observed. The significant behaviours are pure recovery and relaxation-recovery. Other behaviours observed are temporary stress recovery during the relaxation process, and momentary sudden non-linear drop in stress value followed by a second relaxation. The pure recovery and relaxation-recovery responses are repeatable. The latter represents the transitional response between the well-known behaviour of stress relaxation and the behaviour of stress recovery.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Wan Abas
mesh_terms: D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013718:Tensile Strength