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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2015 Sep 8;53:445–454. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2015.08.041

Table 2.

Numerical optimization results for the linear Prony series fit to each normalized individual step and the fully hyperviscoelastic model optimized to all nine specimens.

Linear Model (Equations 2-3) Isolated Steps (45 individual steps) Nonlinear Model (Equations 4-10) Full Steps (9 specimens with 5 steps each)
Complete Response Error Mean (%) 2.73 4.93
CV 0.45 0.28
Peak Response Error Only Mean (%) 2.53E-5 6.65
CV 1.28 0.25
Fit Value Mean 0.967 0.999
CV 0.022 7.6E-4