The global biomechanical impact of cranial sutures on the face and cranium during dynamic
conditions is not well understood. It is hypothesized that sutures act as energy absorbers …

The biomechanical significance of cranial sutures in primates is an open question because
their global impact is unclear, and their material properties are difficult to measure. In this …

Cranial sutures are fibrocellular joints between the skull bones that are progressively
replaced with bone throughout ontogeny, facilitating growth and cranial shape change. This …

Previous computational and experimental analyses revealed that cranial sutures, fibrous
joints between the bones, can reduce the strain experienced by the surrounding skull bones …

To investigate how cranial suture morphology and the arrangement of sutural collagen fibres
respond to compressive and tensile loads, an idealised bone–suture–bone complex was …

Craniofacial sutures are a ubiquitous feature of the vertebrate skull. Previous experimental
work has shown that bone strain magnitudes and orientations often vary when moving from …

Crucial to the interpretation of the results of any finite element analysis of a skeletal system is
a test of the validity of the results and an assessment of the sensitivity of the model …

There have been a number of studies on strain across craniofacial sutures in the past two
decades, especially the work on pigs in Herring's lab (Herring and Mucci, 1991; Herring …

Sutures are soft connective tissue articulations between craniofacial bones. Suture
mechanics deals with patterns of mechanical stress experienced in sutures resulting from …

Finite‐element analysis (FEA) can be used to investigate the mechanical significance of
sutures and regions of intracranial flexibility in skulls. By modeling the stress response to …