Constitutive laws for biomechanical modeling of refractive surgery
Constitutive laws for biomechanical modeling of refractive surgery
复制标题
DOI:
10.1115/1.2796033
复制
发表时间:
1996-11-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
McDonnell, PJ
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Bryant, MR;McDonnell, PJ
Membrane inflation tests were performed on fresh, intact human corneas using a fiber optic displacement probe to measure the apical displacements. Finite element models of each test were used to identify the material properties for four different constitutive laws commonly used to model corneal refractive surgery. Finite element models of radial keratotomy using the different best-fit constitutive laws were then compared. The results suggest that the nonlinearity in the response of the cornea is material rather than geometric, and that material nonlinearity is important for modeling refractive surgery. It was also found that linear transverse isotropy is incapable of representing she anisotropy that has been experimentally measured by others, and that a hyperelastic law is not suitable for modeling the stiffening response of the cornea.