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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng. 2022 Jun 21;398:115108. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115108

Table 1.

Average material properties of the various substructures of the 2D head model employed in this work.

Brain substructure Material properties (O-USS model)
μ (kPa) α k11 (kPa.s) k21 (kPa.s) c21 κ (GPa) ρ (kg/m3)
Deep gray matter 1.10 4.92 −0.152 0.584 0.879 2.19 1040
Cortical gray matter 1.35 −3.76 −0.461E-2 0.441 0.672
Corpus Callosum 2.11 −2.32 −0.224E-2 0.517 0.598
Corona Radiata 1.73 −3.47 −0.343E-2 0.635 0.635
Material properties (LVE model)
G0 (kPa) g1 τ1 (ms) κ (GPa) ρ (kg/m3) Reference
Sub-arachnoid space 0.5 0.8 12.5 2.19 1133 Mao et al. (2013) [41]
Material properties (Linear elastic model)
E (MPa) ν ρ (kg/m3) Reference
Falx 31.5 0.45 1133 Galford and McElhaney (1970) [43]
Skull 8000 0.22 2070 McElhaney (1973) [44]
Material properties (Fluid model)
μ (Pa.s) n ρ (kg/m3) Reference
Ventricles 1.002e-3 7.15 1004 Goldsmith (1970) [45]