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A cut-away cartoon of a thick-walled airway, showing the geometric arrangement in cylindrical coordinates of the tissue stresses in respectively the axial direction (Tzz), the radial direction (Trr), and the circumferential direction (Tϑϑ). Shear stresses are not depicted. The internal and external radii are shown as a and b, respectively.
