An Interferometric-Based Tensile Tester to Resolve Damage Events Within Reconstituted Multi-Filaments Collagen Bundles.
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials(2024)
摘要
Understanding how mechanical damage propagates in load-bearing tissues such as skin, tendons and ligaments, is key to developing regenerative medicine solutions for when these tissues fail. For collagenous tissues in particular, damage is typically assessed after mechanical testing using a broad range of microscopy techniques because standard tensile testing systems do not have the time and force sensitivity to resolve mechanical damage events. Here we introduce an interferometric detection scheme to measure the displacement of a cantilever with a resolution of 0.03% of full scale at a sampling rate of 5000 samples/s. The system is validated using collagen fibers engineered to mimic mammalian tendons. The system can detect sudden decrease in force due to slippage between collagen filaments, one to five microns in diameter, within a fiber in air. It can also detect yield events associated with local collagen unfolding or sliding within collagen fibrils within a fiber in liquid. This is opening the road to the sub-failure study of damage propagation within a broad range of hierarchical biomaterials.
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Tensile testing,Plastic damage,Force microscopy,Michelson interferometry
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