A Comparison of Suture Type:

Dermabond Liquid Adhesive vs. Traditional Sutures

Class: BE210
Group: 102_A4

Members:

Zeeshan Khan

Christine Roche

Hannah Zelman

Quang Pham

Date: April 2006

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The purpose of this experiment is to expand on Experiment #5 by quantifying planar tensile deformations and strains as a means of assessing the relative performance of the Dermabond adhesive to Pulley stitches.

This experiment also serves educational purposes. It helps one to understand the experimental approaches used to systematically estimate displacement data and derive strains for uniaxial loading. One will also become familiar with the experimental challenges of using image data acquisition for deformation analysis.

The hypothesis of this experiment is that the middle sections of the Dermabond samples will exhibit less vertical deformation than the middle sections of the suture samples. The ability to assess this hypothesis requires that the deformation in the BioBrane material itself can be considered negligible in comparison to the deformation at the connective site (the middle section).