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Evaluation of transverse poroelastic mechanics of tendon using osmotic loading and biphasic mixture finite element modeling.

ABSTRACT: Tendon's viscoelastic behaviors are important to the tissue mechanical function and cellular mechanobiology. When loaded in longitudinal tension, tendons often have a large Poisson's ratio (ν>2) that exceeds the limit of incompressibility for isotropic material (ν=0.5), indicating that tendon experiences volume loss, inducing poroelastic fluid exudation in the transverse direction. Therefore, transverse poroelasticity is an important contributor to tendon material behavior. Tendon hydraulic permeability which is required to evaluate the fluid flow contribution to viscoelasticity, is mostly unavailable, and where available, varies by several orders of magnitude. In this manuscript, we quantified the transverse poroelastic material parameters of rat tail tendon fascicles by conducting transverse osmotic loading experiments, in both tension and compression. We used a multi-start optimization method to evaluate the parameters using biphasic finite element modeling. Our tendon samples had a transverse hydraulic permeability of 10^-4 to 10^-5 mm⁴. (Ns)^-1 and showed a significant tension-compression nonlinearity in the transverse direction. Further, using these results, we predict hydraulic permeability during longitudinal (fiber-aligned) tensile loading, and the spatial distribution of fluid flow during osmotic loading. These results reveal novel aspects of tendon mechanics and can be used to study the physiomechanical response of tendon in response to mechanical loading.

SUBMITTER: Safa BN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7438606 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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