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. 2013 Apr 4;19(5):403–412. doi: 10.1089/ten.teb.2012.0461

FIG. 5.

FIG. 5.

Loading mode III—Trouser tear test: The grips grab the bone parts to tear through the cartilage, where the bone part is the area above the dot-dashed line and the cartilage part is the area below the dot-dashed line. The dotted line indicates the initial crack from the bone into the cartilage. The tearing force is applied only on the bone section. Color images available online at www.liebertpub.com/teb