Table 1.

Mechanical properties, fibre orientation and length factor of focused ion beam-milled beams selected from regions A, B, C and D at the limpet tooth anterior edge.

	region A	region B	region C	region D
θmean (°)	5	17	26	41
Ec(GPa)	140	118	93	52
χ1	0.98	0.83	0.65	0.34
χ2	0.88	0.89	0.88	0.93