A Study of the Mechanics of Porous Plga 85/15 Scaffold in Compression

Constitutive modelling of the stress-strain relationship of open-celled PLGA 85/15 bioscaffolds under compression was studied. A constitutive model for compressive behaviour was directly derived from the morphology of a unit cubic cell. These constitutive equations describe the stress-strain relationship as a function of the foam's material properties and cell morphology, such as elastic modulus, yield stress, relative density, cell strut …