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Imagine if an artificial cartilage is fully made of chondrocyteswhich has a compression modulus 0.41 KPa and apparent viscosity of3.0 KPa.s.
a) If such a artificial cartilage is under a sudden load stressof 0.1 KPa, use a simple Kelvin model, can you give an estimate ofthe time period needed to equilibrium from the given mechanicalproperties?
b) What is the final equilibrium strain?
c) Plot out the creep function (strain/load stress) of thiscartilage under a sudden load stress of 0.1 MPa at time t=0.
You can modify the sample Matlab skeleton code below.
syms sig0 eps emod mvis
dsolve('Deps + (emod/mvis)*eps = sig0/mvis') emod=0.1;
mvis=1.0;
sig0=1.0;
C5=1.0;
t=0:1:100;
epsresult=(sig0 - C5*exp(-(emod*t)/mvis))/emodplot(epsresult,t);
d) Comment on why a good artificial cartilage can not be madewith only chondrocytes and what is missing.
