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Effects of Transverse Shear on Strain Stiffening of Biological Fiber Networks

H. Jiang^1,2, B. Yang¹, S. Liu³

1 Dept. of Mech. & Aerospace Engr., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019.
2 Corresponding author. Email: haojiang@uta.edu; Tel: +1 817 272 1496; Fax: +1 817 272 2952
3 State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.