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Residual stress

• Force remaining in a body when all external loads are removed

• Gives rise to a residual strain (movement) which can be measured and used to estimate the degree of residual stress

• In arteries, residual strain canbe quantified by measuring opening angle

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• Helps to balance forces within the arterial wall

• Controls the remodelling process by altering the local loading on VSMC

• Required to define the zero stress state

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Why is residual stress important?

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Circ. Stress [kPa]

Inner OuterNormalised radius

No residual stress: inner/mean = 6.5

Residual stress: inner/mean = 1.4

Residual stress evens out the stresses in the vessel wall

Pressurised tubes

Heat

Cool

Steel rod

Wet concrete in a mold

Stretch steel whileConcrete sets

When concrete sets, tensionin steel bends beam

Beam withstands higherLoad without bending

16tons

Residual strain in vegetables

With thanks to Stephen Gottlieb

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Rat aorta

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No sex differences

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Human aorta

Where does residual stress reside?

• Which part of the wall– Selective removal of layers, by lathing frozen

specimens

• Which components of the wall– Selective digestion/destruction experiments,

using enzymes to remove elastin/collagen and freezing to destroy muscle

Artery lathe

Artery lathe

Fraction of vessel remaining

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Material removed from inside

Material removed from both sides

Localisation of residual strain

Greenwald, S. E., et al. (1997). ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 119: 438-444.

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After elastase treatment

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After collagenase treatment

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Minutes after freezing

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Collagenase Elastase Freezing

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Residual stress: conclusions

• Increases with age

• Greater in men than women

• Compressive at inner side of vessel wall

• Tensile at outer side

• Resides primarily in the elastic component– and to a lesser extent, in muscular component

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