Experimental and Finite Element Analysis of Human Skin Elasticity

Abstract

In this paper, mechanical properties of human skin are inferred from the information of a suction test using a cutometer test. Experiments with a 2 mm probe are carried out and numerical tests using a finite element program developed by the first author are employed for comparison. Regarding the numerical tests, both axisymmetric and complete 3D models of a silicon sheet were employed with the hyperelastic Yeoh constitutive model.