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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2016 Nov 21;16(3):775–785. doi: 10.1007/s10237-016-0852-8

Table 2.

Material properties and longitudinal pre-stretch for FPAs in seven age groups. Constitutive parameters are provided for the four-fiber FPA model. Second column (n) signifies the number of specimens in each age group used to derive these constitutive parameters (Kamenskiy et al. 2016b).

Age
group,
years
n Mean
age,
years
λzin situ C0,
kPa
C1el,
kPa
C2el C1smc,
kPa
C2smc C1col,
kPa
C2col γ
11-20 21 16.7 1.53 10.51 20.92 0.22 2.34 1.76 3.32 2.05 60.84
21-30 15 25.0 1.39 16.81 17.35 0.69 7.72 3.68 3.80 3.28 50.17
31-40 26 35.7 1.36 9.96 17.57 0.99 4.74 2.81 2.45 4.10 55.88
41-50 39 47.2 1.27 13.46 14.54 2.41 8.20 7.29 2.31 9.96 46.84
51-60 106 56.1 1.19 10.69 20.77 3.60 11.58 8.38 3.28 13.19 45.62
61-70 83 64.6 1.15 7.83 24.81 5.73 16.82 12.56 5.24 21.76 46.58
71-80 32 76.1 1.10 7.01 37.03 12.81 36.09 15.96 11.65 36.08 45.02