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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2017 Sep 30;64:50–58. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2017.09.042

Table 2.

Constitutive parameters for all FPAs. N is sample size per age group that was used to derive these parameters.

Age group, years n Mean age, years Cgr (kPa) C1el (kPa)
C2el
C2smc (kPa)
C2smc
C1col (kPa)
C2col
γ (°)
11–20 34 16.5 10.59 21.05 0.21 2.94 2.20 3.83 2.08 60.95
21–30 31 24.8 14.02 15.86 0.49 4.52 4.17 2.52 4.06 55.49
31–40 56 35.7 11.57 17.07 0.91 4.86 3.72 1.96 4.90 57.38
41–50 73 46.8 13.20 17.69 1.98 7.93 7.82 2.32 10.11 49.22
51–60 174 56.1 13.48 20.35 4.09 12.21 11.56 3.55 15.39 47.81
61–70 162 65.0 7.31 23.90 5.76 14.21 12.94 5.23 21.35 46.64
71–80 43 75.7 6.88 33.28 11.59 32.71 15.24 8.87 34.32 44.96