The main goal of this project was to design tensile clamps and a pressure-volume testing device to test the mechanical properties of smoke-damaged and healthy tracheal tissue. Smoke-damaged tissue was hypothesized to be more elastic than healthy tissue, increasing its likeliness of collapse. The data that was collected for both smoke-damaged and healthy tissue was analyzed and compared. Through this comparison, it was concluded that smoke-damaged tissue was likely to collapse due to the tissue degradation caused by smoke inhalation.

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Creator

• Muller, Amanda C.
• DelPaine, Robert Charles.
• Doehr, Bryan Jeremiah.
• Weathers, Jessica Ann.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 01C009M

Advisor

• Kohles, Sean S.
• Bonassar, Lawrence J.

Year

• 2000

Date created

• 2000-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright