Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 642-649 , July 2009

Dependency of disc degeneration on shear and tensile strains between annular fiber layers for complex loads

Received 28 August 2008 ,Revised 22 December 2008 ,Accepted 24 December 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.12.004

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 642-649 , July 2009

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