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IT has recently been shown that the mechanical characteristics of human skin are peculiar both in vivo1 and in vitro2 and do not correspond exactly with those of any known isotropic material. It was found that the increase in the length of portions of skin under increasing load was relatively large at first, but a point was reached when further loading produced little increase in length up to the point at which the specimen failed completely. Moreover, it was suggested that the behaviour of skin under mechanical stress is related to the anatomical arrangement of the collagen and elastic fibres in the dermis which our preliminary histological investigations tend to confirm. We have found, in addition, certain unexpected changes particularly in the dermal collagen after stress3.
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CRAIK, J., MCNEIL, I. Micro-architecture of Skin and its Behaviour under Stress. Nature 209, 931–932 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209931a0
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