Structural constitutive characterization of the vocal fold: Modeling the fibrous and the interstitial matrix proteins

Roger W. Chan, Thomas H. Siegmund, Kai Zhang, Neeraj Tirunagari, Min Fu

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Abstract

The nonlinear viscoelastic bahavior of the human vocal fold extracellular matrix (ECM) under uniaxial tensile loading was characterized. Vocal fold cover specimens were dissected from larynges excised postmortem from three subjects (97 year old female, 17 year old male, and 65 year old male). A sinusoidal uniaxial tensile stretch-release protocol similar to that of Alipour and Titze was conducted on each cover specimen, at a loading rate of 1-10Hz and at a pre-strain of ∼0-30%. It was found that μ A = 0.90 μ for the 97 year old female and the 17 year old male, and μ A = 0.99 μ for the 65 year old male.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Bioengineering, BED
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Pages317-318
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 2004
Event2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE - Anaheim, CA, United States
Duration: Nov 13 2004Nov 19 2004

Other

Other2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnaheim, CA
Period11/13/0411/19/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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