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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2014 Jun 17;47(11):2540–2546. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.06.008

Table 2.

Material properties used to replace the mean NP, CEP, or AF property from Table 1 to evaluate the effect of altered NP or CEP property on the disc response to axial loading.

Material property NP
CEP
AF
High Low High Low High Low
E (kPa) 96 27 784 227 33 10
ν (unitless) 0.42 0 0.34 0 0 0.11
β (unitless) 3.9 0 0 0.7 1.3 2.0
c4 (kPa) N/A N/A N/A N/A 795 44
c5 (unitless) N/A N/A N/A N/A 27 200
k0 ×10−16 (m4/N s) 7 3 4 6 42 48
M (unitless) 1.4 3.1 8.0 1.7 0.26 0.23
FCD (mM) 379 141 255 312 75 41
Initial porosity 0.81 0.77 0.67 0.7 0.74 0.77