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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech Eng. 2005 Dec;127(7):1185–1194. doi: 10.1115/1.2073668

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9

Plaque cap erosion/weakening causes large strain increase. Maximal principal stress showed very little change (figure not shown). However, maximum of strain-P 1 (maximal principal strain) increased about 50% when half of the cap was made 50% softer.