Matlab Simulink: An easy to use tool to study mechanical response of collagen gels submitted to complex strain excursions

B. DROUIN; D. MANTOVANI; R. M. IRASTORZA

Patras

Congreso; Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics; 2013

European Society of Biomechanics

Natural macromolecules and in particular Collagen hydrogels biomaterials are a good choice for scaffolding cells in tissue engineering. Because of the viscoelastic nature of these hydrogels, dynamic solicitation as encountered in bioreactors or in mechano-biology experiments can induce mechanical behaviour hard to anticipate. This paper presents a graphical dynamical modeller and simulator that can be used to anticipate the mechanical behaviour of these gels under whatever strain (relaxation, cyclic loading) or load (creep) solicitation.