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The human skin is a very complex material: it has a high stiffness ratio, is time dependent and has inhomogeneous properties. One of these inhomogeneities is the fibre direction that varies with anatomical site. This fibre pattern is described by Langer’s lines. In the present paper a numerical/experimental way for the determination of the fibre layout is used. The method is based on numerical analysis, strain distribution measurement and system identification. By means of a numerical simulation it is shown that it is possible to determine material parameters for an inhomogeneous material. For that, the skin is modeled as a linear elastic solid with a varying fibre direction. The effects of noise and a modelling errors on the estimation results are shown.
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Meuwissen, M.H.H., van Ratingen, M.R., Oomens, C.W.J., Janssen, J.D. (1993). A Non-Invasive Method to Find Langer’s Lines of Skin. In: Dijksman, J.F., Nieuwstadt, F.T.M. (eds) Topics in Applied Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2090-6_33
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