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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech Eng. 2007 Apr;129(2):259–272. doi: 10.1115/1.2540804

Table 1.

Viscoelastic parameters for 5.5% gelatin acquired by fitting measurements to model functions. First column lists the discrete viscoelastic model order. Second column contains compressive compliance [k Pa−1] and retardance time [s] constants from data of Fig. 12(a). Third column contains wave modulus [k Pa] and relaxation time [s] constants from Fig. 12(b). Fourth column contains shear compliance [k Pa−1] and retardance time constants from Fig. 12(c). Fifth column contains compressive relaxation modulus [k Pa] and relaxation time constants from Fig. 12(d). Q is the probability from χ2 goodness-of-fit test.

MO Fig. 12(a) Fig. 12(b) Fig. 12(c) Fig. 12(d)
2 D0=0.109 M0=307 J0=0.908
D1=0.005 T1=26.8 M1=47.9 T1=13.7 J1=0.024 T1=9.8 E1=0.46 T1=22
D2=0.006 T2=338 M2=77.6 T2=198 J2=0.027 T2=69.5 E2=0.47 T2=302
Q=0 Q=0 Q=0.34 Q=0

3 D0=0.107 M0=307 J0=0.904
D1=0.004 T1=5.5 M1=65.3 T1=1.5 J1=0.015 T1=2.8 E1=0.36 T1=3.5
D2=0.004 T2=49.8 M2=38.6 T2=53 J2=0.017 T2=16.0 E2=0.32 T2=40
D3=0.006 T3=369 M3=61.3 T3=237 J3=0.024 T3=69.7 E3=0.43 T3=310
Q=0.65 Q=0.48 Q=0.41 Q=0.30