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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2018 Sep 19;80:217–227. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.09.027

Figure 7.

Figure 7.

Cyclic stretching of three collagen fibrils followed by final loading to failure, demonstrating fibril strengthening upon cyclic loading at high strains. Final loading to failure after a. 20 loading cycles in regime I (fibril diameter: 197 nm), b. two series of 10 loading cycles in regime II (fibril diameter: 157 nm), and c. two series of 10 loading cycles in post-regime II (fibril diameter: 100 nm).