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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Bone Rep. 2015 Jun 1;2:8–13. doi: 10.1016/j.bonr.2014.10.004

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Comparison of monotonic and fatigue loading. In monotonic loaded samples, force is increased until the sample fails. In fatigue, a repetitive sub-failure load is applied creating damage that eventually coalesces to cause failure.