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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Theor Biol. 2011 Jan 15;274(1):109–119. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.01.011

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Individual filament stress values in nodal equilibrium for 138 filaments, 16 perimeter nodes, and 30 internal nodes after a network was stretched uniaxially by 10% for (a) 1, (b) 5, (c) 10, and (d) 25 cycles. Positive stress (i.e., tension) denotes an increase in the length of the filament relative to the length before the stretching cycle and negative stress (i.e., compression) denotes a decrease in length. At the end of each cycle, filament breakage probability was defined to be the absolute value of the strain normalized to the largest strain value.