Compliance is like elasticity of hollow tube. Elasticity is less for instance for arteries so they are less compliant. There seems to some sort of relationship between compliance and elasticity.
Based on Tyler's comments:
- Compliance is the derivative of strain with respect to stress (or derivative of displacement with respect to force).
- Elasticity is like opposite of stiffness.
about which I am not sure.
One figure about compliance for vein and artery:
where I think the slope of the curve (gradient) is the compliance of each curve.
What is an approximate relationship between the elasticity and compliance?