Medical textiles is an emerging specialist field within the textile industry showing substantial
growth in the amount of research attention it has attracted over the past ten years and it is …

The tensile behaviour of braid reinforcement is classically described by the behaviour of
composite elaborated from these reinforcements. Few studies concern the tensile behaviour …

Aiming at the problem that the existing rope falling device can only detect the impact force
and cannot synchronously detect the impact displacement, this paper introduces a large …

Flax fiber braided yarn plain woven fabric reinforced Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) bio-composites
are fabricated using film stacking and hot-press compression molding method. Effect of fiber …

This study proposes structural models of biodegradable vascular stents. One, two, or three
plies of biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) yarns are combined and twisted with twist …

Challenges involving tendon and ligament repair have motivated the investigation of new
strategies to improve clinical outcomes. These have been mainly based on polymer …

Composites reinforced with woven or braided textiles exhibit high structural stability and
excellent damage tolerance thanks to yarn interlacing. With their high stiffness-to-weight and …

The use of pressure-actuated cellular structures (PACS) is an effective approach for the
application of compliant mechanisms. Analogous to the model in nature, the Venus flytrap …

When tendon injuries present a too large damage extension, the conventional treatment
options do not result, so a new prosthetic device needs to be developed to partially replace …

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most commonly injured intra-articular ligament of
the knee. Due to its limited intrinsical healing potential and vascularization, injuries of the …