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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2015 Dec 12;57:128–138. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2015.12.001

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Strain in the mineral phase plotted against the collagen fibril strain in tension (A) and compression (B). Slope obtained by a linear fit quantifies the degree of cooperation between the mineral and collagen fibril deformation. In compression, no considerable changes in cooperation between the mineral and collagen deformation was observed between dry (0.65) and wet (0.57) specimens in compression. However, in tension the degree of deformation cooperation remarkably decreased (0.32) under wet condition, whereas the degree of cooperation between the mineral and collagen deformation was comparable with that in compression (0.64) if bone is dehydrated.