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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Craniofac Growth Ser. 2009 Mar;46:427–450.

Figure 6.

Figure 6

An empirical model of the relationship between velocity of stress-field translation, aspect ratio of the stress-field, compressive strain3 and tractional forces. Data collected from 64 porcine discs were fit to a quadratic equation (R2 = 0.83). The tractional forces were expressed as a coefficient, where the Fnormal = 10 N. The non-linear increases seen in tractional coefficient reflect the effects of stress-field velocity, geometry and compressive strain on the pressurization of the fluid within the TMJ disc.