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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2020 Dec 3;114:110143. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.110143

Figure 2:

Figure 2:

Construction of finite element mesh. A) Hemispheres were fit to the articular cartilage layers of a representative sample. B) the resulting hemispheres were discretized using linear hexahedral elements finite element representation of the transchondral strain experiment. The converged mesh consisted of 59,904 linear hexahedral elements, with 12 elements through the thickness of each articular layer, biased towards the articular surface. C) Representative finite element prediction of compressive strain (3rd principal strain) pattern at loading and element location of maximum compressive strain used for data collection (white arrow).