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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag. 2009 May–Jun;28(3):10–18. doi: 10.1109/MEMB.2009.932486

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

(a) Scheme for model formulation and comparison to experiments. The model is constructed to match the collagen cruciform at both the macroscopic and microscopic level. (b) The finite element domain matches the initial configuration and boundary conditions, and networks match the initial local alignment direction (θ) and alignment strength (δ). The model's predictive success is assessed by comparing its output to the measurements at each stage of the strip-biaxial test.