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. 2012 Jun 8;134(6):0610041–06100411. doi: 10.1115/1.4006848

Table 1.

Summary of experimental results and associated material parameters for the DST and indentation tests

Aligned
Control Elastic (storage) component of shear modulus
μʹ (kPa) μ1(kPa) μ2(kPa) μ1/μ2
Mean Range 1.00 ± 0.52 1.08 ± 0.42 0.58 ± 0.21 1.88 ± 0.33
0.49–1.74 0.54–1.87 0.26–0.94 1.45–2.46
Indentation stiffness
kexp (mN/mm) kexp (mN/mm) kexp (mN/mm) kexp/kexp
Mean Range 177 ± 115 79 ± 41 141 ± 81 1.80 ± 0.48
63–350 26–136 38–267 1.16–2.50
Strain energy function parameters
μ (kPa) μ1 (kPa) μ2 (kPa) μ1/ μ2 (β/μ2)12
Mean Range 3.2 ± 2.2 2.7 ± 1.4 1.4 ± 0.7 1.9 ± 0.3 2.3 ± 2.4
1.2–6.6 0.7–4.6 0.5–2.4 1.5–2.4 0–5.63
Engineering constants
E (kPa) E1 (kPa) E2 (kPa) E1/E2 ν21 ν2
Mean Range 9.7 6 ± .6 24.1 ± 25.5 5.1 ± 2.6 4.5 ± 3.5 0.17 ± 0.09 0.82 ± 0.09
3.5–19.8 3.0–72.4 1.6–8.5 1.9–9.9 0.05–0.26 0.73–0.94