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OVERVIEW There is an amazing variety of soft tissues in the human body and replacement tissues must therefore withstand a similarly impressive range of loads, stresses and strains. One of the most common loading conditions experienced by biological soft tissues is a tensile stretching force. Skin, tendons, ligaments, the heart and other internal organs, and even the ocular lens constantly experience in plane tensile forces. To develop treatment options and the next generation of synthetic and engineered tissues, mechanical testing is necessary to completely characterize the mechanical behavior of native tissues. Material behavior can also give insight to material structure and composition, which benefits the development of engineered tissues matching the native tissue properties. Biological test samples are often small and delicate with low strength characteristics, so it Please call us at 1.800.430.6536 to speak with an applications engineer.

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Although the testing of natural tissues is inherently specific to the material being tested, ASTM has developed standard test methods in an attempt to establish acceptable test procedures, which provide accurate and reproducible results. Popular test standards are ASTM F2258 for tissue adhesives and ASTM F2458 for wound closure strength.

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