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1 Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; and 2 Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Samples of the muscular sheet excised from the midcostal region of dog diaphragms were subjected to biaxial loading. That is, stresses in the direction of the muscle fibers and in the direction perpendicular to the fibers in the plane of the sheet were measured at different combinations of strains in the two directions. Stress-strain relations were obtained by fitting equations to these data. In the direction of the muscle fibers, for strains up to 0.7, stress is a modestly nonlinear function of strain and ranges up to ~60 g/cm. In the direction perpendicular to the fibers, the sheet is stiffer and more strongly nonlinear. At a strain in the perpendicular direction of ~0.35, stress increases abruptly. The stress-strain relation in the muscle direction is consistent with observations of passive muscle shortening in vivo. However, the stiffness in the perpendicular direction is not high enough to explain the observation that strains in the perpendicular direction in vivo are nearly zero. We conclude that, in the passive diaphragm in vivo, stress in the direction perpendicular to the muscle fibers is small.
respiratory muscles; stress; strain; transdiaphragmatic pressure
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