In-silico pre-clinical trials are made possible by a new simple and comprehensive lumbar belt mechanical model based on the Law of Laplace including support deformation and adhesion effects

• Jérôme Molimard ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: molimard@emse.fr

  Affiliation Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon, Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM, U 1059 Sainbiose, Centre CIS, Saint-Etienne, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3402-4970

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• Rébecca Bonnaire,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: ICA (Institut Clément-Ader), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IMT Mines Albi, INSA,UPS, ISAE–SUPAERO, Albi, France

  Affiliations Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon, Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM, U 1059 Sainbiose, Centre CIS, Saint-Etienne, France, Thuasne, Saint-Etienne, France

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• Woo Suck Han,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ Lyon, Univ Jean Monnet, INSERM, U 1059 Sainbiose, Centre CIS, Saint-Etienne, France

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• Reynald Convert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Thuasne, Saint-Etienne, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9083-7482

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• Paul Calmels

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Univ Lyon, UJM Saint-Etienne, LIBM, CHU Saint-Etienne, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Saint-Etienne, France

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