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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell Biomech. 2008 Sep;5(3):197–206.

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Four sequential events, (I) adherence, (II) adherence and shear deformation, (III) detachment as shear deformation peaks, and (IV) sliding with maintenance of shear deformation, that occurs during cartilage-on-cartilage articulation. (A) Schematic and (B) where these events occur in a representative shear strain (Exz) versus applied lateral displacement (Δx) diagram.