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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2008 Dec 13;2(6):613–619. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2008.11.008

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The energy dissipated by plastic deformation linearly increased after yielding as the strain increased with each successive cylce of loading. This pathway of toughness was greater for compression than for tension.