FIGURE 2.

Three loading scenarios used for calculating the elasticity matrix of bone tissue. (A) Uniaxial compression in the x direction ( ${\epsilon }_x$ = −0.1), (B) uniaxial compression in the y axis ( ${\epsilon }_y$ = −0.1) and (C) shear loading in the x-y plane ( ${\gamma }_{xy}$ = 0.1).