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trigirl
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Hi,
I am a biomechanist looking into Achilles tendon injuries. I was at a conference the other day and they were talking about using tendons for ACL reconstructions and about tubularising tendons. This got me thinking. Is there a certain conformation of fibres that is stronger than others.
Basically for those who don't know tendons are made up of many bundles of collagen fibres aligned in the direction of tensile force. The material properties that are used to describe tendons is stiffness, strain, stress and Young's modulus. The Achilles tendon has a broad flat area where it originates at the muscle, becomes rounded in the mid portion and then flattens out again where it inserts into the bone. The mid portion is the area most prone to degeneration as a result of overuse. The Achilles tendon primarily must withstand high tensile loading. I thought that carbon fibre constructs are possibly materials that might have similar groupings of multiple fibres.
Does anyone know of any resources that might have investigated the differenc ein material pproperties for different conformations of fibres. I would ideal like to see if the stress/strain etc for a broad flat material is different to that of a rounded bundle.
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks to anyone who can help
I am a biomechanist looking into Achilles tendon injuries. I was at a conference the other day and they were talking about using tendons for ACL reconstructions and about tubularising tendons. This got me thinking. Is there a certain conformation of fibres that is stronger than others.
Basically for those who don't know tendons are made up of many bundles of collagen fibres aligned in the direction of tensile force. The material properties that are used to describe tendons is stiffness, strain, stress and Young's modulus. The Achilles tendon has a broad flat area where it originates at the muscle, becomes rounded in the mid portion and then flattens out again where it inserts into the bone. The mid portion is the area most prone to degeneration as a result of overuse. The Achilles tendon primarily must withstand high tensile loading. I thought that carbon fibre constructs are possibly materials that might have similar groupings of multiple fibres.
Does anyone know of any resources that might have investigated the differenc ein material pproperties for different conformations of fibres. I would ideal like to see if the stress/strain etc for a broad flat material is different to that of a rounded bundle.
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks to anyone who can help