title: Direction dependent response of human skin.
abstract: This paper discusses the direction dependent response of human skin under the high speed force impartment with the range of speed of 1 m/s. Under such a dynamic condition, it is well known that human skin deformation can not modeled as a linear system, such as a combination of linear spring, linear damper, and mass. But it has different parameters between the force applying and the recovery phases. By observing the deformation through a high speed camera, we newly found that the direction dependent response comes from the different deformation mechanism between phases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Artificial Complex Systems Engineering, The Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. tanaka@hfl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaneko
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009068:Movement; D010829:Physiological Phenomena; D011312:Pressure; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena; D013997:Time Factors