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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2013 Jun 5;13(2):387–400. doi: 10.1007/s10237-013-0504-1

Table 1.

Constitutive model coefficients determined from curve fitting experimental Cauchy stress versus stretch data

Side Region neo-Hookean μ (MPa) Veranda Westmann C1
(MPa)
Veronda Westmann C2
(no units)
Femur AL 5.72 ± 2.74 0.30 ± 0.17 6.70 ± 1.51
AM 4.06 ± 0.98 0.31 ± 0.27 5.87 ± 1.86
SL 5.50 ± 1.52 0.34 ± 0.17 6.45 ± 2.13
SM 3.46 ± 2.04 0.19 ± 0.18 8.40 ± 3.05
PL 6.22 ± 2.32 0.38 ± 0.30 6.93 ± 2.33
PM 4.74 ± 1.38 0.29 ± 0.08 6.98 ± 1.13
IL 6.34 ± 0.74 0.48 ± 0.21 5.26 ± 0.94
IM 3.92 ± 0.62 0.23 ± 0.18 7.23 ± 2.23
F 4.98 ± 2.16 0.29 ± 0.17 6.34 ± 1.89
Lateral 5.88 ± 2.10 0.36 ± 0.21 6.36 ± 1.42
Medial 4.08 ± 1.52 0.26 ± 0.18 7.10 ± 2.68
Whole 4.88 ± 2.02 0.30 ± 0.21 6.71 ± 2.27
Acetabulum AL 9.34 ± 3.20 0.72 ± 0.37 5.31 ± 1.09
AM 4.82 ± 1.12 0.22 ± 0.12 7.42 ± 1.51
SL 6.54 ± 2.62 0.29 ± 0.16 7.31 ± 0.59
SM 4.68 ± 0.58 0.26 ± 0.08 7.21 ± 0.94
PL 7.96 ± 1.80 0.45 ± 0.10 6.13 ± 0.34
PM 5.74 ± 1.78 0.31 ± 0.19 6.60 ± 1.09
Lateral 7.74 ± 2.28 0.47 ± 0.27 6.33 ± 1.29
Medial 5.04 ± 1.60 0.26 ± 0.15 7.20 ± 1.43
Whole 6.44 ± 2.58 0.37 ± 0.25 6.69 ± 1.42
Both Lateral 6.50 ± 2.54 0.40 ± 0.26 6.22 ± 1.48
Medial 4.40 ± 1.56 0.28 ± 0.20 6.86 ± 2.44
Whole 5.32 ± 2.32 0.34 ± 0.24 6.55 ± 2.07

Mean ± SD. Anatomical regions are shown in Fig. 2. The pooled lateral, medial and whole regional coefficients were obtained by averaging across all samples