| Summary: | Cartilage constructs produced by SFCTtechnology provide promising opportunities to restore cartilage defects. Mechanical parameters of soft tissues are explicit markers for quantitative tissue characterization. In this study, we present a biphasic 3D-FE-based method to determine the biomechanical properties of SFCT from stress relaxation compression tests (ε = 20 %, t = 3400 s) whereby cartilaginous tissue is modeled as a biphasic material with tension-compression nonlinearity (BMTCN). The FE-model computation was optimized by exploiting the axial symmetry and mesh resolution. The R² of the fit results varies between 0.970 and 0.983. The Young’s and fiber modulus determined from SFCT are 37-times and 5-times lower than from native articular cartilage, respectively. Permeability, on the other hand, is 11-times higher than from native articular cartilage.
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