Over the last two decades, considerable progress has been reported in the field of cartilage
mechanics that impacts our understanding of the role of interstitial fluid pressurization on …

The importance, and the difficulty, of generating biosynthetic articular cartilage is widely
recognized. Problems arise from obtaining sufficient stiffness, toughness and longevity in the …

Interstitial fluid pressurization has long been hypothesized to play a fundamental role in the
load support mechanism and frictional response of articular cartilage. However, to date, few …

Slow, large deformations of human brain tissue—accompanying cranial vault deformation
induced by positional plagiocephaly, occurring during hydrocephalus, and in the …

Compressing a porous material will decrease the volume of the pore space, driving fluid out.
Similarly, injecting fluid into a porous material can expand the pore space, distorting the …

Objective. To develop a biomechanical model for cartilage which is capable of capturing
experimentally observed nonlinear behaviours of cartilage and to investigate effects of …

Under physiological conditions of loading, articular cartilage is subjected to both
compressive strains, normal to the articular surface, and tensile strains, tangential to the …

The objective of this study was to experimentally verify the well-accepted but untested
hypothesis that cartilage interstitial fluid pressurizes variously under the action of an applied …

Experiments were carried out to investigate the influence of loading velocity on the stiffness
of the articular cartilage matrix. Compression tests were conducted on cartilage alone and …

Hydrocephalus is a state in which the circulation of cerebrospinal fluid is disturbed. This
fluid, produced within the brain at a constant rate, moves through internal cavities in it …