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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2016 Apr 4;49(9):1562–1569. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.03.034

Figure 8.

Figure 8

The fiber OD for the representative BAV ATA tissue model (NOI=0.56) was constructed at five different applied stretch levels and are plotted after being fit to a normal distribution. The fiber network gradually aligns with the loading direction (0 degrees) as the applied stretch increases. Most of the alignment is seen with the fibers that were initial oriented along (and about) the loading direction. There is little difference in the orientation of fibers orthogonal to the loading direction (at the tails of the ODF curve). Actual fiber networks for each applied stretch are shown in inserts.

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