Abstract
We have designed a series of dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)-like device to directly measure the material properties of living human plantar soft tissue. Various mechanical tests of plantar soft tissue such as vertical, horizontal shear and torsion can be carried out on the newly invented instruments, and periodic strain-stress outputs are obtained to analyse the viscoelasticity of the tissue. Pioneering finite element analysis has been done by coupling the machine and human foot FE model from different simulation environments, and the simulation tests show good engineering verification of the device design, and consistent theoretical results of the material properties of plantar soft tissue as expected.
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