An Analytic Model for Skin Modulus Measurement Via Conformal Piezoelectric Systems

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Shi, Y; Dagdeviren, C; Rogers, JA; Gao, CF; Huang, Y
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Abstract
Copyright © 2015 by ASME. The Young's modulus of human skin is of great interests to dermatology, cutaneous pathology, and cosmetic industry. A wearable, ultrathin, and stretchable device provides a noninvasive approach to measure the Young's modulus of human skin at any location, and in a way that is mechanically invisible to the subject. A mechanics model is developed in this paper to establish the relation between the sensor voltage and the skin modulus, which, together with the experiments, provides a robust way to determine the Young's modulus of the human skin.
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2015
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/134994
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Journal
Journal of Applied Mechanics
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ASME International
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