Collagen Network Mechanical Properties After Cyclic Tensile Loading

Comprising experimental data on the mechanical adaptation of a collagen-based material following cyclic tensile loading. It was created by Monica E. Susilo and published in 2020. The data includes measurements of tensile stiffness and ultimate tensile strength, showing significant increases without network realignment or changes to fibril area fraction.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between cyclic tensile loading and changes in tensile stiffness to model collagen network strengthening.
• Investigate the effect of mechanical loading on ultimate tensile strength to understand fibril-level stabilization mechanisms.
• Use the data on fibril area fraction and network realignment to validate multi-scale computational models of extracellular matrix remodeling.

Strengths

• Data is associated with a peer-reviewed scientific study on tissue adaptation.
• Dataset is published under a permissive CC0 1.0 license for broad reuse.
• Includes specific findings on tensile stiffness and strength changes from cyclic loading.

Limitations

• Specific data structure, column names, and sample size are not provided in the input.
• The experimental scope is limited to in vitro collagen-based materials, not in vivo tissue.
• The dataset's last update was in 2020, which may limit its alignment with the most recent research.

Provenance

Source

Dryad digital repository.

Collection Method

Experimental data from cyclic tensile loading tests on a collagen-based material.

Freshness

Last updated on 2020-06-24.