Application of modified superposition model to viscoelastic behavior of periodontal ligament英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2008, 1, 195-199 Application of modified superposition model to viscoelastic behavior of periodontal ligament 1 Javad Hazrati Marangalou, Farzan Ghalichi Behnam Mirzakouchaki 1 2 1 Division of Biomechanics, Mechanical Engineering Department, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran. Division of Orthodontics, School Of Dentistry, 2 Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. Correspondence should be addressed to J. Hazrati (hazrati_biomech@). Received July 17, 2008; revised October 17, 2008; accepted October 17, 2008 ABSTRACT system for orthodontic treatment [4]. The PDL has a de- terminant influence on tooth instantaneous mobility be- cause of lower stiffness in comparison with surrounding tissues [5], and also long term movement because of bone remodeling [6]. The periodontal ligament (PDL) is a soft bio- logical tissue which shows a strongly nonlinear and time dependent mechanical behavior. Re- cent experiments on rabbit PDL revealed that the rate of stress relaxation is strain dependent. This nonlinear behavior of PDL cannot be de- scribed well by the separable quasi linear vis- coelasticity theory which is usually used in tis- sue biomechanics. Therefore, PDL requires a more general description which considers this nonlinearity and time dependency. The purpose of this study was to model strain dependent stress relaxation behavior of PDL using modi- fied superposition method. It is shown herein that modified superposition method describes viscoelastic nonlinearties well and shows a good compatibility with available experimental PDL data. Hence, the modified superposition model is suggested to describe periodontal ligament data, because it can suitably demon- Ligaments display time dependent behavior which is typical of viscoelastic material