Mechanical Characterization of Brain Tissue in High-Rate Compression

  • TAMURA A
  • HAYASHI S
  • WATANABE I
  • et al.
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Abstract

Mechanical properties of brain tissue in high strain region are indispensable for the analysis of brain damage during traffic accidents. However, accurate data on the mechanical behavior of brain tissue under impact loading condition are sparse. In this study, mechanical properties of porcine brain tissues were characterized in their cylindrical samples cored out from their surface. The samples were compressed in their axial direction at strain rates ranging from 1 to 50 s -1 . Stress relaxation test was also conducted following rapid compression with a rise time of ~30 ms to different strain levels (20-70%). Brain tissue exhibited stiffer responses under higher impact rates: initial elastic modulus was 5.7±1.6, 11.9±3.3, 23.8±10.5 kPa (mean±SD) for strain rate of 1, 10, 50 s -1 , respectively. We found that stress relaxation K(t,ε) could be analysed in time and strain domains separately. The relaxation response could be expressed as the product of two mutually independent functions of time and strain as:) () () , (ε σ ε e t G t K = , where σ e (ε) is an elastic response, i.e., the peak stress in response to a step input of strain ε, and G(t) is a reduced relaxation function: 9 . 18 / 482 . 0 / 0207 . 0 / 216 . 0 142 . 0 642 . 0) (t t t e e e t G − − − + + = , i.e., the time-dependent stress response normalized by the peak stress. The reduced relaxation function obtained here will serve as a useful tool to predict mechanical behavior of brain tissue in compression with strain rate greater than 10 s -1 .

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TAMURA, A., HAYASHI, S., WATANABE, I., NAGAYAMA, K., & MATSUMOTO, T. (2007). Mechanical Characterization of Brain Tissue in High-Rate Compression. Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2(3), 115–126. https://doi.org/10.1299/jbse.2.115

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