Dataset on spherical compression tests on chicken breast muscle tissues for pedagogical applications

In the context of innovative medicine, data collection and management are paramount. The need of training is crucial to prepare future engineers and researchers to help and find consistent values and build substitute materials that are still in progress for the large variety of soft biological tissues. Through various lectures, graduate students have been encouraged to pay attention to the complex behaviour of soft biological tissues but practical applications are rarely described and this work aims to fill this lack. Therefore, a short practical session was designed combining most of the phenomena. Thanks to spherical compression tests as well as sample preparations in different environments, it allows to: i) point difficulties that students and future biomedical engineers might encounter, ii) show how computational tools are powerful to get an interpretation of experimental results and iii) provide a procedure to allow experimenting macroscopic mechanical characterisation. This dataset is the result of a classical practical laboratory session based on eight years of practice. It contains 5 force-displacement responses of chicken breast undergoing spherical compression as well as two finite element simulations of the same test in linear and non linear framework. It is a good way to introduce graduate students to biomechanical characterisation of soft biological samples through open science resources, using a theoretical model combined to computational tools.