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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2011 Feb 26;44(6):1066–1072. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.01.039

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Rheological models for viscoelastic behavior of bone. a) standard linear solid, with two elastic and one viscous element; b) Burgers model with two elastic and two viscous elements; and c) a two-dashpot Kelvin model, which has three elastic and two viscous elements. The time constant for the standard linear solid model is theoretically given by E2/η, for the Burgers model by E2/η2, and for the two-dashpot Kelvin model by E1/η2 and E2/η2.