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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2008 Jul 15;41(11):2379–2387. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.05.026

Fig. 5. Nonuniform contraction of a tensegrity stress fiber model.

Fig. 5

A) Configurations of the tensegrity SF model before (top) and after (bottom) contraction. Enlarged views of the junctions between the peripheral and central regions of the SF pre- and post-contraction are also shown (middle). B and C show percent change in length exhibited by the whole tensegrity structure (black squares) versus the peripheral (black triangles) and central regions (open circles) of the tensegrity model and a tensed cable net model with similar configuration that lacked compression struts, respectively.