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J Appl Physiol 85: 867-873, 1998;
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Vol. 85, Issue 3, 867-873, September 1998

Zero-stress states of human pulmonary arteries and veins

W. Huang and R. T. Yen

Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152

The zero-stress states of the pulmonary arteries and veins from order 3 to order 9 were determined in six normal human lungs within 15 h postmortem. The zero-stress state of each vessel was obtained by cutting the vessel transversely into a series of short rings, then cutting each ring radially, which caused the ring to spring open into a sector. Each sector was characterized by its opening angle. The mean opening angle varied between 92 and 163° in the arterial tree and between 89 and 128° in the venous tree. There was a tendency for opening angles to increase as the sizes of the arteries and veins increased. We computed the residual strains based on the experimental measurements and estimated the residual stresses according to Hooke's law. We found that the inner wall of a vessel at the state in which the internal pressure, external pressure, and longitudinal stress are all zero was under compression and the outer wall was in tension, and that the magnitude of compressive stress was greater than the magnitude of tensile stress.

opening angle; residual stress; residual strain


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