Biophysical Journal 16: 597-600 (1976)
© 1976 the Biophysical Society

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Constitutive relation for red cell membrane. Correction.

ABSTRACT

The intention of this note is to correct a subtle and somewhat esoteric error that the author discovered in his previous publications on membrane elastic behavior. The consitutive relation between membrane force resultants and large, elastic deformations of a membrane surface involves a strain tensor, characterizing the finite deformations. The original strain tensor that appeared in the equations was the Lagrangian strain tensor; however, the proper strain representation (also Lagrangian in nature because it is "measured" relative to the undeformed material state) is transformed by rotations of coordinates in the deformed material state (whereas the Lagrangian strain tensor is transformed by rotations of coordinates in the undeformed state). The principal membrane tensions are unchanged by this correction; the material elastic constants remain the same; and therefore, the material behavior in shear and isotropic tension is the same. However, the tensor, constitutive relation can be properly applied to coordinate systems other than the principal axis system.