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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2012 May 2;8(9):3360–3371. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.04.039

Table 1.

Nanoindentation loading cycles followed by Bernick et al. [76] (rates are given in μm.s−1; “0”, “+” and “-” represent a plateau, loading and unloading respectively between the initial indentation depth δ0 at Steps A and B to δ0 + 2μm)

Cycles A B C1 C2 C3 D E
Load + 0 + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + 0
Rate 0.3 0 10 1 0.1 10 0