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Measuring bone stiffness using spherical indentation

Fig 5

Compression testing stress-strain graph.

Graph displaying strain on the x-axis and stress (in GigaPascals) on the y-axis from one of the cortical bone samples that underwent compression testing in the materials testing machine in this study. The elastic modulus was calculated from the slope of a best-fit line at the steepest part of the linear section of the stress-strain curve, over a 1% strain range, which is displayed on the graph.

Fig 5

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200475.g005