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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Eye Res. 2018 Apr 13;172:159–170. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2018.04.003

Figure 11.

Figure 11

How crimp can influence gradual stiffening in tissue. Stretching an uncrimped fiber usually requires a larger force than stretching the same fiber when it is crimped. (Left) The amount of stretch needed to trigger this stiffening is related to the amount of slack in the fiber. When many fibers of different slack are stretched together, more and more fibers straighten with stretch, gradually increasing the overall stiffness of the tissue. (Right) Figure modified from (Jan et al., 2017a)