Assessment of shear forces distribution at fixation points of textile based implants

A system for assessing the distribution of shear forces at fixation points on a textile based implant, the system comprising:

• a tissue model including an upper surface extending along a plane and defining an opening therethrough, and a fixation support configured to secure a textile-based implant against the upper surface at a plurality of fixation points defined along the plane of the upper surface;
• a load simulation device configured to apply a load to a textile-based implant secured to the tissue model;
• at least one marker disposed on the fixation support at one or more of the plurality of fixation points;
• and
• an analysis system configured to calculate a shear force vector at each of the one or more of the plurality of fixation points where the at least one marker is disposed in response to the load applied by the load simulation device, wherein the analysis system includes a digital image acquisition and processing component including two or more cameras for recording the position of the at least one marker in a 3D coordinate system and digital image correlation software for calculating a displacement vector of the at least one marker.