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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2020 Nov 21;121:431–443. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2020.11.025

Table 6:

Parameters of the four-fiber family constitutive model describing the 25th percentile response of human PAs in 7 age groups. A total of 19 different loading protocols were used to determine the constitutive parameters in this model. The coefficient of determination R2 ≥ 0.99 for all age groups.

Age group (years) Cgr, kPa C11,kPa C21 C12,kPa C22 C32=C42,kPa C32=C42 γ°
16±2 (12–20) 7.02 26.84 0.30 0.22 9.52 12.69 3.75 67.25
26±4 (21–30) 13.20 5.16 0.87 7.41 7.94 0.13 12.65 58.32
37±2 (31–40) 17.13 2.20 6.67 10.36 24.68 3.70 21.40 60.81
46±3 (41–50) 0.09 0.14 3.46 9.64 30.57 41.17 3.47 33.55
57±3 (51–60) 0.01 46.16 6.94 56.70 47.68 28.27 28.91 53.52
64±3 (61–70) 32.47 13.30 25.61 30.40 36.54 0.39 126.52 47.68
76±7 (71–92) 0.00 111.55 63.11 71.18 80.59 90.67 155.09 54.48