Abstract: An analysis is presented for the formation of chips in a two-dimensional, isotropic, elastic-brittle solid, due to the penetration of a rigid wedge. The analysis can be viewed in three parts. ...

Abstract: The problem of a finite-width tension specimen containing a crack oriented at various angles to the load axis is attacked from experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Displacements of an ...

Abstract: Several candidate predictors for the occurrence of surface fissures in cartilage, including impact force, shear stress, and tensile strain have been previously proposed without an analytic basis. ...

Abstract: Experimental evidence suggests that the tensile behavior of tendons and ligaments is in part a function of tissue hydration. The models currently available do not offer a means by which the ...

Abstract: Stress analysis of contact models for isotropic articular cartilage under impacting loads shows high shear stresses at the interface with the subchondral bone and normal compressive stresses near ...

Abstract: Articular cartilage consists of both solid and fluid phases with fissures observed on the surface occurring in the solid portion. In order to determine which of the solid phase stresses provides ...

Abstract: Articular cartilage is known to behave nonlinearly for large deformations. Mechanical properties derived from small strain experiments yield excessively large deformations in finite element models ...