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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2008 Aug 20;29(32):4292–4299. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.07.018

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

Shear strength at the interface of osteochondral constructs. (A) Methodology for the preparation of osteochondral constructs for shear testing. (B) Analysis of data: peak load determined at highest force before failure (asterisk). Shear stiffness determined by curve fit to linear region (red linear), Energy to Failure determined by integrating area under curve to peak load and normalizing by interface area (shaded area). (C) Peak load between bone and tantalum groups. *p < 0.05 for OC(bone) vs. OC(tantalum). Table: comparison between tantalum group at day 42 and native cartilage.