Structural & Material Properties of Pig Muscle
Name: Swati Kasundra
Class: BE 210
The objective of this lab is to get a better understanding of how the various material properties and structural properties of cardiac muscle and smooth muscle of a pig affect their respective relationship between applied load and material deformation. It is also important to become familiar with using MATLAB to analyze the stress-strain relationship and observe the differences in deformation.
The hypothesis is that cardiac muscle will have a greater ultimate strength than smooth muscle due to its networked myofibrils that allow it to withstand very strong contractions. As a result, cardiac muscle will also have a greater Young’s modulus.