{"id":511,"date":"2017-09-14T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/?p=511"},"modified":"2018-12-13T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:05:15","slug":"is-the-brain-a-solid-or-a-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/2017\/09\/14\/is-the-brain-a-solid-or-a-liquid\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Brain a Solid or a Liquid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brain is neither a solid nor a liquid.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanical response of the brain to external loads is strain-rate dependent. Thus, a viscoelastic constitutive model can be used to describe the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The following video by The Bentil Group illustrates the response of a pig&#8217;s brain to impact by a .177 cal pellet. Images were acquired at a frame rate of 100,000 frames per second.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: The meninges were not removed from the brain and can be seen tearing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLWZ0dLGsC88VrM7igs8wqhbjVoCZJh26D\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain is neither a solid nor a liquid. The mechanical response of the brain&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.me.iastate.edu\/sbentil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}