The objectives of this study were (1) to develop subject-specific experimental and finite element (FE) techniques to study the three-dimensional stress-strain behavior of ligaments, with application to the human medial collateral ligament (MCL), and (2) to determine the importance of subject-specific material properties and initial (in situ) strain distribution for prediction of the strain dist...

Ultrasound elastography produces strain images of compliant tissues under quasi-static compression. In axial-shear strain elastography, the local axial-shear strain resulting from application of quasi-static axial compression to an inhomogeneous material is imaged. The overall hypothesis of this work is that the pattern of axial-shear strain distribution around the inclusion/background interfac...

We consider whether it is possible to recover the three dimensional strain field tomographically from neutron and X-ray diffraction data for polycrystalline materials. We show that the distribution of strain transverse to a ray cannot be deduced from one diffraction pattern accumulated along that path, but that a certain moment of that data corresponds to the transverse ray transform of the str...