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Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2009 Jan;2(1):93–104. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.05.005

Table 2.

Summary of the constitutive model parameters of all specimens; μ_i - initial shear modulus; α - power in Ogden model; Z_i - viscoplastic scaling constant; m_i -stress exponent (subscript i denoting network (A), (B) or (C)); (c) - vocal fold cover; (l) - vocal ligament

Gender	Age	μ_A	μ_B	μ_C	α	Z_B	m_B	Z_C	m_C
Gender	Age	[kPa]	[kPa]	[kPa]		[s^-1(kPa)^-m_B]		[s^-1(kPa)^-m_c]
Male	33 (c)	2.82	20.0	0.74	13.8	0.05	1.8	0.005	1.0
	33 (l)	3.33	50.0	0.87	15.3	0.02	1.4	0.001	1.2
	51 (c)	1.38	40.0	0.28	14.3	0.06	1.5	0.005	1.2
	51 (l)	1.33	50.0	0.16	15.2	0.04	1.3	0.01	1.3
	65 (c)	5.02	60.0	1.87	15.3	0.005	1.6	0.003	1.1
	65 (l)	1.83	40.0	1.99	24.0	0.006	1.5	0.00008	1.1
	66 (c)	2.30	130.0	2.35	15.0	0.0025	1.8	0.001	1.1
	66 (l)	2.76	50.0	0.44	20.0	0.004	1.3	0.004	1.0
	88 (l)	3.70	130.0	1.05	16.9	0.0045	1.2	0.002	1.4
	99 (c)	1.13	40.0	5.14	14.0	0.01	2.1	0.0001	1.0
	99 (l)	0.57	40.0	2.04	20.2	0.01	1.2	0.0008	1.1
Female	73 (c)	0.26	70.0	0.36	16.2	0.02	1.3	0.0002	1.1
	73 (l)	0.20	60.0	0.45	14.7	0.05	1.1	0.0001	1.5
	80 (c)	2.17	190.0	0.97	14.3	0.008	1.1	0.00015	1.4
	80 (l)	0.40	65.0	0.87	15.5	0.02	1.2	0.00002	1.8
	82A (c)	2.50	70.0	0.68	15.4	0.01	1.7	0.0006	1.1
	82A (l)	5.91	50.0	3.05	13.0	0.005	1.5	0.00008	1.2
	82B (c)	0.37	40.0	0.065	18.8	0.02	1.3	0.009	1.1
	82B (l)	0.43	80.0	0.23	14.9	0.02	1.3	0.003	1.2
	83 (c)	1.09	150.0	0.11	18.2	0.008	1.0	0.0005	1.5
	83 (l)	0.14	50.0	0.041	19.0	0.08	1.2	0.001	1.1
	84 (l)	1.17	80.0	1.08	11.4	0.006	1.7	0.00006	1.2