  In recent years, a number of experimental studies have been conducted to
investigate the mechanical behavior of water-saturated biological tissues like
articular cartilage under dynamic loading. For in vivo measurements of tissue
viability, the indentation tests with the half-sinusoidal loading history were
proposed. In the present paper, the sinusoidally-driven compression test
utilizing either the load-controlled or displacement-controlled loading
protocol are considered in the framework of linear biphasic layer model.
Closed-form analytical solutions for the integral characteristics of the
compression test are obtained.
