Multiscale Mechanical Model of the Pacinian Corpuscle Shows Depth and Anisotropy Contribute to the Receptor’s Characteristic Response to Indentation
Fig 6
Long-axis strain in isotropic and aligned network cases.
The strain along the long axis of the PC was calculated after 25 steps of 1 μm indentation. The cases of circumferentially-aligned (red squares) network and isotropic (blue circles) networks are shown. While the long-axis strain increases monotonically with indentation into the PC in both network cases, the isotropic network case showed higher strain than the aligned network case.