|
| Author | Materials | Experiments | Preconditioning/testing |
|
|
Cornwell et al. [9] | Extruded type I collagen | (i) Uniaxial tensile tests | (i) Tests in air at RT |
| (ii) No mechanical preconditioning |
| (iii) , rate: 0.83% s−1 (tensile tests) |
|
|
Yang et al. [10] | Porcine esophagi | (i) Incremental stress relaxation tests | (i) Tests in air at RT |
| (ii) No mechanical preconditioning |
| (ii) Incremental cyclic tests | (iii) Rate: 0.83 mm/s |
| (iv) Holding time: 300 s (relaxation tests) |
|
|
Roeder et al. [8] | Type I collagen gels (0.3–3 mg/mL) | (i) Uniaxial tensile tests on dumbbell-shape samples | (i) Tests in a bath containing PBS at 37°C |
| (ii) No mechanical preconditioning |
| (iii) , rate: 0.6% s−1 (tensile tests) |
|
|
Feng et al. [11] | Type I collagen gels (1.67 mg/mL + 106 cells/mL) | (i) Uniaxial tensile tests | (i) Tests in a bath containing medium culture at RT |
| (ii) Stress relaxation tests | (ii) kPa, rate: at 0.9% s−1 (, mechanical preconditioning) |
| (iii) Creep tests | (iii) Holding time: 70 s (relaxation tests) |
| (iv) , rate: 0.9% s−1 (tensile tests) |
|
|
Berglund et al. [12] | Type I collagen gels (2 mg/mL) | (i) Uniaxial tensile tests | (i) Tests in air at RT |
| (ii) Stepwise stress relaxation tests | (ii) when ; rate: 0.2 mm/s (, mechanical preconditioning) |
| (iii) Creep tests | (iii) , rate: 0.2 mm/s (tensile tests) |
|
|
Assoul et al. [13] | Rat arteries | (i) Tensile tests on ring- and rectangular-shaped samples | (i) Tests in a bath containing PBS at 37°C |
| (ii) No mechanical preconditioning |
| (iii) 0.8–0.57, duration of the tests: 0.13–1 s (tensile tests consisting in one loading and one unloading) |
|
|
Chan et al. [14] | Collagen membranes | (i) Uniaxial tensile tests | (i) Tests in air at RT |
| (ii) No preconditioning |
| (iii) , rate: 0.083 mm/s (tensile test) |
|
