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. 2021 Nov 22;11:22668. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01036-5

Table 2.

Elastic modulus estimated from the classical Hertz theory EH, Hertz theory corrected for finite height EH-fh, Hertz theory corrected for neo-Hookean non-linearity and finite height ENH-fh, Hertz theory corrected for neo-Hookean nonlinearity and finite dimensions (finite height and finite diameter) ENH-fdh.

Sample EH (kPa) EH-fh (kPa) ENH-fh (kPa) ENH-fdh (kPa) ENH-fdh-ENH-fhENH-fdh
PAA1 0.18 0.12 0.13 0.14 7%
PAA2 1.82 1.05 1.15 1.20 4%
PAA4 3.46 2.14 2.27 2.27 0%
PAA5 11.39 8.29 8.55 8.92 4%
PAA6 11.39 9.11 10.36 11.23 7%
PAA7 67.91 44.91 47.11 50.43 7%