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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Biol. 2013 Jan 28;10(1):016005. doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/1/016005

Figure A.2.

Figure A.2

(a) If no subcortical growth occurs in response to stress, the cortex is like the beam on an elastic foundation. (b) If growth occurs in response to stress, the core acts like a viscoelastic (Maxwell) foundation, responding like a solid for fast deformations and like a fluid at slow strain rates.