Suture Performance under Uniaxial Tension by use of Novel Skin Surrogate Material

 

Class: BE210
Group: 101_A5

Members:

 

Ilan Epstein

Neha Jha

Ameya Phadke

Lena Virasch

 

Date: April 2006

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This experiment will seek to determine how varying numbers of knots in a suture will affect its ability to resist deformation. If the Instron method is used and the surrogate material, distance between stitches, material spacing, and suturing method are held constant, it is anticipated that more stitches (four) will result in a better deformation properties than less stitches (two), evidenced by a higher elastic modulus.