Knee ligaments mechanics

Acting as track rod for joints, knee ligaments are viscoelastic complex structures which are loaded up to damage and failure during trauma situations. This paper presents 10 years of joint research at the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Application and the Laboratory of Acoustics and Mechanics in investigating the mechanical behaviour of such structures. Staring from clinical knowledge, we show, how experimental, histological, theoretical and FE simulation approaches have been performed to investigate such the behaviour of such structures.

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