Figure 1.

Structural schematic of both two- and four-fibre DPD models of an arterial wall containing two primary structural constituents: collagen fibres embedded in an elastin-dominated matrix. The two-fibre model (top) contains collagen fibres (red) and an elastin matrix (grey). The four-fibre model (bottom) contains additional axial (dark blue) and circumferential (light blue) fibres. DPD particles in each layer are located at the vertices of each triangle or diamond, indicated in the right column with black circles. (Online version in colour.)