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Title: |
Viscoelastic effects in small-scale indentation of biological materials |
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Author: |
Michelle L. Oyen, Andrew J. Bushby 
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Address: |
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK. ' Department of Materials, Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK |
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Journal: |
International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering 2007 - Vol. 1, No.2/3 pp. 180 - 197 |
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Abstract: |
Modern developments in instrumentation and analysis have vastly increased the popularity of instrumented indentation and nanoindentation techniques for mechanical characterisation of materials. However, these techniques have been developed primarily for materials exhibiting time-independent mechanical behaviour and therefore have had limited applicability in the mechanical analysis of time-dependent biological tissues. Following a brief introduction on elastic and elastic-plastic indentation, the current paper reviews the existing analytical machinery available for indentation analysis of viscoelastic materials (as developed in the context of polymeric materials). Recent works are reviewed in which the application of viscoelastic indentation techniques is extended to small-scale testing of biological tissues. |
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Keywords: |
indentation; nanoindentation; viscoelastic effects; time-dependent mechanical behaviour; creep; load relaxation; biological tissues; bone; elastic modulus; time constant; instrumentation. |
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DOI: |
10.1504/IJSURFSE.2007.015024 |
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