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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2008 Apr 25;29(21):3152–3160. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.04.013

Figure 9.

Figure 9

(A) Five periodic energy functions are shown, with arbitrary positioning on the y-axis. Each is shown with dimensionless energy barrier Πb set to 30, 25, and 20 for illustration, all under a dimensionless load of ΠP = 50. From top to bottom these are 3o, 4o, U, S, and V, as defined in the text. (B) Dimensionless time to failure is plotted from simulations performed with a system of 16 particles using each energy function over a range of values for Πb Each line style matches that of the function in (A) used to generate it.

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