Table 2.

Overview of bulge inflation test results on aortas: AN, aneurysmatic; ASA, ascending aorta; Circ, circumferential; DTA, descending thoracic aorta; Long, longitudinal; TA, thoracic aorta;

Study	Species	Location	Healthy/ Diseased	Speed (mm/min)	Additional information	Direction	n	Failure stress (kPa)	Failure extension (−)
Marra et al. [76]	Porcine	TA	–	60	–	Long	25	1750±710	1.523 ± 0.178c
Pearson et al. [100]	Porcine	ASA	–	–	–	–	10	3699 ±789	1.85 ± 0.114d
		DTA	–			–	10	4260±1626	1.70 ± 0.138d
		Isthmus	–			–	10	3248 ±1430	1.66 ± 0.109d
Kim et al. [64]	Human	ASA	AN	15	Media	Circ	6	547.5 ± 362.6	0.192 ± 0.08e
						Long	6	335.3 ± 103.8	0.261 ± 0.117e
					Adventitia	Circ	3	636.6 ± 322.7	0.252 ± 0.091e
						Long	3	976 ± 247.2	0.343 ± 0.123e
Sugita et al. [137]	Porcine	TA	–	15	Proximal	–	6	1810±430a	–
					Distal	–	6	2290 ±740a	–
	Human	TA	AN		–	–	6	980±390a	–
Romo et al. [115]	Human	ASA	AN	15	Media	–	9	780 ± 200b	–
					Adventitia	–	6	1460±103b	–
Duprey et al. [32]	Human	ASA	AN	15	Composite	–	31	1260±940b	1.37 ± 0.15f

^aLaplace stress;

^bstress perpendicular to the crack direction;

^cmean stretch;

^dcircumferential stretch;

^eaverage Green-Lagrange strain;

^fstretch perpendicular to the crack direction.