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R. Baptista et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 1 (2016) 018–025 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2016) 000 – 000

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one can see that the crack path is no longer symmetrical, with the crack Tip b being more affected by the softer osteons then the Tip a by the stiffer osteons.

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Fig. 5. a) crack propagation on a symmetric model, b) antisymmetric model I, c) antisymmetric model II, d) squared model, e) symmetric model with stiff osteons on the right side, f) square model with stiff osteons on the right side and an inclined crack.