Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 590-598 , June 2008

Simulation of high tensile Poisson's ratios of articular cartilage with a finite element fibril-reinforced hyperelastic model

Received 7 February 2007 ,Revised 26 June 2007 ,Accepted 27 June 2007.

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PII: S1350-4533(07)00134-8

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.06.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 590-598 , June 2008

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