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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Phys Solids. 2011 Sep 1;59(9):1823–1837. doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.05.012

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The geometry of an undulated collagen fiber with total length S0 and straight length l0. The overall fiber direction is N, which is described by the overall orientation angle θ for 2-D problem. The undeformed cross-sectional area is described by the long axis L/L and short axis SS.