Role of Secondary Structure on the Stress Relaxation Processes in Rat Tail Tendon (RTT) Collagen Fibre

Abstract

Comparison of experimental and calculated values of r/r 0 as a function of time for native RTT in water medium for one-, two-and three-term models.

A novel microstructural approach in tendon viscoelastic modelling at the fibrillar level

“…Such a testing methodology preserves the strain rate sensitivity in the viscoelastic tests (Haut and Haut, 1997). An alteration of the viscoelastic response of the tendon can be provoked by a significant variation of pH (Usha and Ramasami, 1999) or temperature (Price et al, 1997), thus, to affect the activation mechanism of collagen crosslinks (Usha et al, 2001). The interpolation of the experimental data has been performed using the Curve Fitting Toolbox of the software Matlab r , using the non-linear least square methods with the Trust-Region algorithm.…”