Correlation between compression, tensile and tearing tests on healthy and calcified aortic tissues University of Antwerp KU Leuven
An anastomosis performed in calcified tissues tears up faster than in healthy tissues. This study develops and validates an in vitro non-destructive method to distinguish healthy from calcified aortic tissues. An uniaxial unconfined compression test is able to distinguish healthy from calcified aortas ( ). The compressive E-modulus at a strain level of 10% is kPa for artificially calcified and kPa for healthy porcine aortic tissues. Calcified ...