Table 1.

Compressive-based mechanical properties of the human OC tissue.

OC Region	Mechanical Test	Elastic/Young’s Modulus	Ref
Articular Cartilage	Indentation	1.03 ± 0.48 Mpa	[33]
	Unconfined compression	0.854 ± 0.348 MPa	[34]
		0.64 ± 0.30 MPa	[35]
Calcified Cartilage	Indentation	6.44 ± 1.02 MPa	[36]
Subchondral Bone	Indentation	≈6–13 GPa	[37]
	Unconfined compression	297–475 MPa	[38]
	Unconfined compression via finite element modelling	3–20 GPa	[39]
		296 ± 107–497 ± 52 MPa	[40]