Abstract—Skin, the largest organ of the human body, is essentially a vital organ, which apart from offering outward appearance to a person, provides protection. Owing to the intricate nature of skin, measuring and quantifying its mechanical behaviour as well as its properties is indeed a challenge. A number of studies have been carried out to enhance ones understanding of skin’s behaviour and properties by establishing the numerical value of skin parameters based on hyperelastic models. This paper reviews recent experimental techniques employed in the study of skin mechanics with regard to human and bovine skin. This work also explores the phenomenological experimental-numerical fusion technique, which results to tangible quantification of biomechanical properties of skin.

Index Terms—skin biomechanics, in vivo, in vitro, motion capture, tensile test, FE simulation, Matlab, hyperelastic models

Cite: Jamaluddin Mahmud, "Keynote Speech on Skin Biomechanics: An Experimental-Numerical Integration," Journal of Medical and Bioengineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 24-30, February 2015. Doi: 10.12720/jomb.4.1.24-30