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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2010 May 23;43(12):2418–2424. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.04.019

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Representative strain fields for the regions of interest in specimens at POD 10, 24, and 38 at a bending angle of 35°. The strains are shown only on the region of interest, which is depicted for a representative specimen via the dashed line superimposed on the top left digital image. The strains are plotted using the original (0°) coordinates; however, in order to illustrate the direction of the applied bending motion, the corresponding digital image at 35° is shown at the top right. During the bending motion, the right (proximal) side of the region of interest stays approximately fixed, while the left (distal) side is displaced upwards and to the right. Emax is the maximum principal strain, Evol the volumetric strain, and Eoct the octahedral shear strain. Strains are displayed in units of mm/mm.