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Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 266: H1-H10, 1994;
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AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 1 1-10, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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New experiments on shear modulus of elasticity of arteries

S. X. Deng, J. Tomioka, J. C. Debes and Y. C. Fung
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0412.

Although the mechanical properties of blood vessels have been studied extensively, the shear modulus of the blood vessel wall is still unknown. New data on the shear modulus of elasticity of rat arteries and its variation with axial stretch and blood pressure are presented. The data were obtained from a new instrument designed and constructed by us to perform simultaneous torsion, inflation, and longitudinal stretching tests. It was found under physiological conditions (pressure = 120 mmHg or 16 kPa; longitudinal stretch = 1.2 relative to zero-stress state), the shear modulus of normal rat thoracic aorta is G = 137 +/- 18 kPa. The difference of shear modulus at body temperature (37 degrees C) and room temperature (25 degrees C) is within 10%. The shear modulus varies significantly with changing longitudinal and circumferential strains in proportion to the strain energy due to these strains. A constitutive equation based on a pseudo strain energy function is proposed. The vessel wall is not transversely isotropic in the incremental sense. When the rat was subjected to high blood pressure due to constriction of its aorta, the shear modulus does not vary significantly with the length of time the animal was subjected to hypertension.


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