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Fig. 1
Idealized geometry of a vessel like the esophagus or an artery.
Fig. 2
Comparison between the nondimensional shear (μ) and effective shear (μeff) moduli for the Fung model for various values of λz and a = 0.5.
Fig. 3
Comparison between the nondimensional shear (μ) and effective shear (μeff ) moduli for the Gent Model with λz = 1, I m = 500 and c2 /c1 = 1 , 1, 2.