Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2013
Multi-scale characterization of structures and mechanical behavior of biological tissues are of h... more Multi-scale characterization of structures and mechanical behavior of biological tissues are of huge importance in order to evaluate the quality of a biological tissue and/or to provide bio-inspired scaffold for functional tissue engineering. Indeed, the more information on main biological tissue structures we get, the more relevant we will be to design new functional prostheses for regenerative medicine or to accurately evaluate tissues. From this perspective, we have investigated the structures and their mechanical properties from nanoscopic to macroscopic scale of fresh ex-vivo white New-Zealand rabbit Achilles tendon using second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and tensile tests to provide a "simple" model whose parameters are relevant of its micro or nano structure. Thus, collagen fiber's crimping was identified then measured from SHG images as a plane sine wave with 28.4 ± 5.8 μm of amplitude and 141 ± 41 μm of wavelength. Young's moduli of fibrils (3.0 GPa) and amorphous phases (223 MPa) were obtained using TH-AFM. From these investigations, a non-linear Zener model linking a statistical Weibull's distribution of taut fibers under traction to crimp fibers were developed. This model showed that for small strain…
Plasma-assisted nitriding treatments on austenitic stainless steel at low temperature produce the... more Plasma-assisted nitriding treatments on austenitic stainless steel at low temperature produce the so called “expanded austenite”. The expansion of the nitrided layer that occurs from the initial surface of the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the surface is used here as a mean to produce patterned surfaces by selective nitrogen diffusion through masks. Using grids, a network of well
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2013
Multi-scale characterization of structures and mechanical behavior of biological tissues are of h... more Multi-scale characterization of structures and mechanical behavior of biological tissues are of huge importance in order to evaluate the quality of a biological tissue and/or to provide bio-inspired scaffold for functional tissue engineering. Indeed, the more information on main biological tissue structures we get, the more relevant we will be to design new functional prostheses for regenerative medicine or to accurately evaluate tissues. From this perspective, we have investigated the structures and their mechanical properties from nanoscopic to macroscopic scale of fresh ex-vivo white New-Zealand rabbit Achilles tendon using second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and tensile tests to provide a "simple" model whose parameters are relevant of its micro or nano structure. Thus, collagen fiber's crimping was identified then measured from SHG images as a plane sine wave with 28.4 ± 5.8 μm of amplitude and 141 ± 41 μm of wavelength. Young's moduli of fibrils (3.0 GPa) and amorphous phases (223 MPa) were obtained using TH-AFM. From these investigations, a non-linear Zener model linking a statistical Weibull's distribution of taut fibers under traction to crimp fibers were developed. This model showed that for small strain…
Plasma-assisted nitriding treatments on austenitic stainless steel at low temperature produce the... more Plasma-assisted nitriding treatments on austenitic stainless steel at low temperature produce the so called “expanded austenite”. The expansion of the nitrided layer that occurs from the initial surface of the substrate in a direction perpendicular to the surface is used here as a mean to produce patterned surfaces by selective nitrogen diffusion through masks. Using grids, a network of well
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