ILT tissue is vulnerable against fatigue failure and shows significant decreasing strength with respect to the number of load cycles. Hence, after a reasonable time of pulsating loading ILT's strength is far below its ultimate strength, and when compared with stress predictions from finite element (FE) studies, this indicates the likelihood of fatigue failure in vivo. Failure within the ILT could propagate towards the weakened vessel wall behind it and could initialize AAA failure thereafter.
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