Resumen
Collagen fibrils are the main structural component of load-bearing tissues such as tendons, ligaments, skin, the cornea of the eye, and the heart. The D-band of collagen fibrils is an axial periodic density modulation that can be easily characterized by tissue-level X-ray scattering. During mechanical testing, D-band strain is often used as a proxy for fibril strain. However, this approach ignores the coupling between strain and molecular tilt. We examine the validity of this approximation using an elastomeric collagen fibril model that includes both the D-band and a molecular tilt field. In the low strain regime, we show that the D-band strain substantially underestimates fibril strain for strongly twisted collagen fibrils — such as fibrils from skin or corneal tissue.
Idioma original | English |
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Número de artículo | 104854 |
Publicación | Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials |
Volumen | 124 |
DOI | |
Estado | Published - dic. 2021 |
Nota bibliográfica
Funding Information:We thank the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for operating Grants RGPIN-2018-03781 (LK) and RGPIN-2019-05888 (ADR). MPL thanks NSERC for summer fellowship support ( USRA-552365-2020 ), and a CGS Masters fellowship .
Publisher Copyright:
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Biomaterials
- Biomedical Engineering
- Mechanics of Materials
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't