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Figure 6
(a) Typical time course of width, force and length during a tensile test. A circumferential adventitia was stretched at constant speed corresponding to an initial strain rate of 0.005 min−1. At maximum extension a strain of about 0.2 was reached. (b) Azimuthal intensity distribution of the third-order Bragg peak during a complete cycle. After about 1000 s the maximum load is reached, and the azimuthal intensity distribution is clearly sharper than at the beginning of the experiment (no load), i.e. the fiber orientation has reached its maximum at this point (compare also with Fig. 5[link]). Thereafter the fibers become relaxed (time >1000 s) and the azimuthal intensity distribution smears out again.

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Volume 12| Part 6| October 2005| Pages 727-733
doi:10.1107/S0909049505012549
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