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Mechanical behaviour of a fibrous scaffold for ligament tissue engineering: Finite elements analysis vs. X-ray tomography imaging

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The use of biodegradable scaffolds seeded with cells in order to regenerate functional tissue-engineered substitutes offers interesting alternative to common medical approaches for ligament repair. Particularly, finite element (FE) method enables the ability to predict and optimise both the macroscopic behaviour of these scaffolds and the local mechanic signals that control the cell activity. In this study, we investigate the ability of a dedicated FE code to predict the geometrical evolution of a new braided and biodegradable polymer scaffold for ligament tissue engineering by comparing scaffold geometries issued from FE simulations and from X-ray tomographic imaging during a tensile test. Moreover, we compare two types of FE simulations the initial geometries of which are issued either from X-ray imaging or from a computed idealised configuration. We report that the dedicated FE simulations from an idealised reference configuration can be reasonably used in the future to predict the global and local mechanical behaviour of the braided scaffold. A valuable and original dialog between the fields of experimental and numerical characterisation of such fibrous media is thus achieved. In the future, this approach should enable to improve accurate characterisation of local and global behaviour of tissue-engineering scaffolds.
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hal-01066792 , version 1 (22-09-2014)

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Cédric P. Laurent, P. Latil, Damien Durville, Rachid Rahouadj, Christian Geindreau, et al.. Mechanical behaviour of a fibrous scaffold for ligament tissue engineering: Finite elements analysis vs. X-ray tomography imaging. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 2014, 40, pp.222-233. ⟨10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.09.003⟩. ⟨hal-01066792⟩
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