Table 4.
Stiffness and strength values of the different hierarchial levels summarized by Goh et al. [116], sponge by Jain 1988 [504], film by Koide and Daito [250], threads by Pins et al. [503]
| Stiffness (young module) (Mpa) | Yield strength (Mpa) | Molecule | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tissue | Bundle | Fibril | Molecule | Film | Sponge | Thread | Tissue | Bundle | Fibril | ||
| Average | 701 | 276 | 1192 | 5150 | 1000 | 0.014 | 500 | 61 | 22 | 212 | 629 |
| Mean absolute deviation | 318 | 132 | 905 | 1653 | 18 | 10 | 148 | 589 | |||
| Molecule: x | 7.4 | 18.7 | 4.3 | 1.0 | 5.2 | 370000 | 10 | 10.4 | 28.7 | 3.0 | 1.0 |
Molecule: x is the factor of the physical properties of collagen molecules compared to the presented structure