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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Rep Phys Sci. 2021 Jul 28;2(8):100515. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100515

Figure 5. A schematic illustration of affine deformation of polymer networks.

Figure 5.

In the affine model, every polymer in the network experiences an average strain based on its orientation. Under shear, there will be an equal number of fibers being stretched (the red fiber, for instance) and compressed (the yellow fiber, for instance).