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AlexMentink
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Dear readers,
For a Biomedical Engineering project I have to develop a model for the respiratory system of a neonate. This will be done by using pressure/volume data of the lungs. To model these, I would like to use a rubber balloon. However the calculation are more difficult than I thought.. (Especially because rubber behaves non-linear and with a hysteresis effect, I will ignore these effects) As assumptions I used the fact that the balloon is perfectly spherical, behaves linearly and the strain is dependent on the radius relative to the original radius (R0).
Could anyone help me?
Thanks!
For a Biomedical Engineering project I have to develop a model for the respiratory system of a neonate. This will be done by using pressure/volume data of the lungs. To model these, I would like to use a rubber balloon. However the calculation are more difficult than I thought.. (Especially because rubber behaves non-linear and with a hysteresis effect, I will ignore these effects) As assumptions I used the fact that the balloon is perfectly spherical, behaves linearly and the strain is dependent on the radius relative to the original radius (R0).
Could anyone help me?
Thanks!