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• TITLE: Fingertip skin models for analysis of the haptic perception of textiles

  AUTHORS: Izabela Luiza Ciesielska-Wrobel, Lieva Van Langenhove, Katarzyna Grabowska

  KEYWORDS: Fingertip Skin; Sensation of Textiles through the Skin; Skin Model; Finite Element Model; Abaqus CEA 6.10-2.

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Vol.7 No.1, January 2, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This paper presents finite element models of the fingertip skin which have been created to simulate the contact of textile objects with the skin to gain a better understanding of the perception of textiles through the skin, the so-called hand of textiles. Many objective and subjective techniques have already been developed for analysing the hand of textiles; however, none of them provide exact overall information concerning the sensation of textiles through the skin. As the human skin is a complex heterogeneous hyperelastic body composed of many particles, some simplifications had to be made at the early stage of building the models; however, their utilitarian value was maintained. The models relate only to mechanical loading of the skin. They predict a low deformation of the fingertip skin under the pressure of virtual heterogeneous material: acrylic, coarse wool, and steel.