Mechanical behaviour of braided fibrous structures for artificial knee ligaments

One of the research trends explored within the last few years is the use of braided fibrous materials as artificial grafts as they offer the possibility to mimic the structure as well as mechanical behaviour of artificial ligaments. The present paper reports the development of a special type of brai...

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Main Author: Cruz, Juliana (author)
Other Authors: Rana, S. (author), Fangueiro, Raúl (author), Guedes, Rui (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20010
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/20010