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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2021 Feb 13;117:104377. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2021.104377

Fig. 1:

Fig. 1:

FE model used to study the effect of intrafibrillar mineralization on mechanical properties of oim/oim bone. Model consisted of different units of mineralized collagen fibrils and extrafibrillar matrix considered as the building blocks. Extrafibrillar matrix minerals were bound by non-collagenous proteins modeled as cohesive elements. Intrafibrillar mineralization content was varied to cover 5%, 10%, and 15% overall intrafibrillar mineralization. The model was tested under compression to study failure modes, and under tension to calculate average mineral and collagen strain.