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. 2016 Jun 9;7:11787. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11787

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(a) Histogram of 213 steadily propagating (Methods) ruptures in the positive direction for various experimental loading conditions and 2,000<F_N<6,000 N. (b) Histogram of 98 steadily propagating ruptures in the negative direction, conditions as in a. Green and red lines denote, respectively, C_L^soft and C_S^soft. Note the sharp selection (88% of all primary ruptures) at C_S^soft in the positive direction whereas C_S^soft is never observed in the negative one.