From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Schematics of (a) human trachea (composed of cartilaginous rings, which are completed by smooth muscle and connected to each other by narrow connective tissue layers) and the test samples along with the uniaxial tension direction, and (b) the strain applied on each sample, consisting of a preconditioning phase (six cycles of loading/unloading) and the stress relaxation phase (with application of a constant strain amplitude for relaxation over a period of 300 s)

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Average stress relaxation curves corresponding to tracheal (a) cartilage, (b) connective tissue, and (c) smooth muscle at different strain levels

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Normalized stress–time data at different strain levels for (a) tracheal cartilage, (b) connective tissue, and (c) smooth muscle

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Age-based comparison of the experimental stress relaxation data corresponding to (a) tracheal cartilage at 10% strain level, (b) connective tissue at 30% strain, and (c) smooth muscle at 30% strain

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Schapery (SCH), modified superposition (MSP), quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV), and three-term Prony series (PRO) models fitted to the experimental stress relaxation data for tracheal smooth muscle at 20%, 30%, and 40% strain levels

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Schapery (SCH), modified superposition (MSP), quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV), and three-term Prony series (PRO) models fitted to the experimental stress relaxation data for tracheal connective tissue at 20%, 30%, and 40% strain levels

From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues Date of download: 11/4/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Viscoelastic Properties of Human Tracheal Tissues J Biomech Eng. 2016;139(1):011007-011007-9. doi:10.1115/1.4034651 Figure Legend: Schapery (SCH), modified superposition (MSP), quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV), and three-term Prony series (PRO) models fitted to the experimental stress relaxation data for tracheal cartilage tissue at 5% and 10% strain levels