...Rong Z. Gan; Shangyuan Jiang Eardrum or tympanic membrane (TM) is a multilayer soft tissue membrane located at the end of the ear canal to receive sound pressure and transport the sound into the middle ear and cochlea. Recent studies reported that the TM microstructure and mechanical properties...

...Gang Huang; Nitin P. Daphalapurkar; Rong Z. Gan; Hongbing Lu A viscoelastic nanoindentation technique was developed to measure both in-plane and through-thickness viscoelastic properties of human tympanic membrane (TM). For measurement of in-plane Young’s relaxation modulus, the TM sample...